It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to spread his message. This is about as remarkable a claim as could be stated, and yet it is tossed out lightly. Christians seem to imagine that "God did it" is as plausible as the natural explanation that stories grow with the retelling. The Christian has the burden of proof, and it's an enormous burden given this enormous claim.

Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.