I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.