There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.