Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Don’t you simply love going to bed. To curl up warmly in a nice warm bed, in the lovely darkness. That is so restful and then gradually drift away into sleep…

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

The military guys, they can just sit up and sleep. It's amazing.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.