When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.