Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.