“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

It is always the secure who are humble.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.