"Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody- and that's what's made them radiantly attractive."

"If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors."

"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to weave."

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!"

"Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat."

"Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on."

"In every group of intimidated people, each thinks "I will rebel," but each waits for the others."

"We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead."

"There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write."

"An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought."

"A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote."

"Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else."

"Most sermons sound to me like commercials — but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product."

"I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary."

"How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him."

"Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something."

"Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing."

""Your money or your life." We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does."

"My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance."

"We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not."

"Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God."

"In church, sacred music would make believers of us all—but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance."

"Charity is a good way of reminding God that if we can do it, He can."

"When a stranger identifies you from a friend's description, it's just as well you didn't hear the description."

"We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still."

"The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing."

"Air that has been much quarreled in becomes very hard to breathe."

"The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol."

"Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness."

"If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did."

"When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting that we have just had one."

"There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."

"The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it."

"If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you."