When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Peter De Vries
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.
Peter De Vries
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De Vries
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Peter De Vries
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
Peter De Vries
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.