Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.