The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.