“It is always the secure who are humble.”

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

A loss makes you humble. It tests the other batsmen and bowlers. Also, if you keep winning you don’t now what area you need to work on.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Don’t ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.