Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

You can make anything by writing.

We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.