A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.