Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

It is the moment of evolutionary truth for the race, and what man does with that moment will be more important than the events of the previous millennia.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

If you get to be thirty-five and your job still involves wearing a name tag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.

The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded, Acacias having drunk the lees Of the night-dew, fain headed, And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem The fittest foliage for a dream.

The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.

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.

American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is to God. A being outside our world would be a spectator, looking on but taking no part in this life, where we try to be brave despite all the bafflement. A god who created, and withdrew, could be mighty, but he could not be love. Who could love a God remote, when suffering is our lot? Our God is closer than our problems, for they are out there, to be faced; He is here, beside us, Emmanuel.

No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. [No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.]

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Do what you know best, if you're a runner, run, if you're a bell, ring

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.