In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.