Friends are seldom found; they are made.

We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.