If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

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