The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

You cannot make men good by law.

Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves.

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.