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.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

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.

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

I will not be at the mercy of the telephone!