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.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?