To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.