Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

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

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.