Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

All human relationships must be purchased with money.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.