If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

My appetite comes to me while eating.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968 Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.

He will give the devil his due.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.