We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.