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

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced by Peter, I should dream of dentists or gardening. I wonder what unspeakable depths of awfulness can only be expressed by the polite symbol of Peter's embraces?