The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

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

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

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.