The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.