The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!