Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.