Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

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.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.