If New Testament Christianity is to reappear today with its power and joy and courage, men must recapture the basic conviction that this is a Visited planet. It is not enough to express formal belief in the "Incarnation" or in the "Divinity of. Christ"; the staggering truth must be accepted afresh -- that in this vast, mysterious universe, of which we are an almost infinitesimal part, the great Mystery, Whom we call God, has visited our planet in Person. It is from this conviction that there springs unconquerable certainty and unquenchable faith and hope. It is not enough to believe theoretically that Jesus was both God and Man; not enough to admire, respect, and even worship Him; it is not even enough to try to follow Him. The reason for the insufficiency of these things is that the modern intelligent mind, which has had its horizons widened in dozens of different ways, has got to be shocked afresh by the audacious central Fact -- that, as a sober matter of history, God became one of us.

Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. -Jane Haddam.

To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it, but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

We have but one, and only hate, We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe and one alone.

The best proof of love is trust.

Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, Without all hope of day.

All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.

The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan.

One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.