The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.