We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. - Thornton Wilder

He gazed for an hour upon the great clouds of pearl that hang forever upon the horizon of that sea, and extracted from their beauty a resignation that he did not permit his reason to examine. The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.

The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous...and the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight.

The most exhausting of all our adventures is that journey down the long corridors of the mind to the last halls where belief is enthroned.