God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.