Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

I say to you Baptists, "Go on being good Baptists, thinking that you are more right than anybody else." Unless you think it, I have no use for you at all. The Church of England does precisely the same itself.