Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.