The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.