One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
Joy is the life of man's life.
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.
Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more.
The right timing is not always our timing.
Only sinners need saviors.