The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made.