"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could not learn in any other way."

"We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imag…"

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."

"The finest moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… but rather the times when we are stretched to our limits."

"I am a democrat [believer in democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason."