Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

Art is the signature of man.