Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.