Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

All work is an act of philosophy.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed eyelids, what I experienced was not a prayer, I do not pray, but that state of spirit at which a prayer is a misguided attempt: a full, confident, affirming self-dedication to my love of the right, to the certainty that the right would win and that this boy would have the kind of future he deserved... I did not expect it to be as great as this - or as hard.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.