“She’s the sort of woman who lives for others – you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

God doesn’t want something from us. He simply wants us.

Nothing is really ours until we share it.

I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

You can make anything by writing.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit – a spirit that demands self-expression .

The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.

Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.