For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.