In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

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

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.