When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.