Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.