Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.