The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.