When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

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.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

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.