"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

"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 only safe rule is to be sure that you are leading a life that would be worth living even if there were no heaven."