Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.