We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.

Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.