We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.