I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.
It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Leave no stone unturned.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.
I already shred all my mail. What am I supposed to do now? Use pay phones? Smoke signals? Train pigeons? There's no such thing as privacy anymore.
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
There's no Biblical definition of contemplative prayer
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.