As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.