The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

no one ever gossips about the virtues of others