It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.
Faith handles the ultimate incongruities of life, humor handles the more immediate ones.
There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love.
We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.