Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Men give advice; God gives guidance.

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.

But I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakeable faith.

We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.

We don't need self-confidence we need God-confidence

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

I think it's important to be an absolute believer and have that confidence.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed