Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.