It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.