“ All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. ”

“ Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ”

“ To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. ”

“ We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour. ”

“ The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. ”

“ I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ”

“ It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. ”

“ A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. ”

“ A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. ”

“ The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. ”