The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.