"I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy."

"Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy."

"I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless."

"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."

"Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them."

"No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony."

"The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next."

"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life."

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

"You can never learn less, you can only learn more."