Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.

Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.