But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!