All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

In a few years, no doubt, marriage licences will be sold like dog licences, good for 12 months.

It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.