I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

Time stays, we go.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.