Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.