Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.

Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize.

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.