"The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so."

"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."

"A picture says more than a thousands words, but which words are these?"

"Fix it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without."

"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance."

"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."

"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction."

"By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed."

"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries."

"Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults."