It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.