The best security for old age: respect your children.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.