We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.