Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right..

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Heaven means to be one with God. - Confucius,

Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Out of too much learning become mad.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise.

Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.