We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Fairy tales are more than true.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

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

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.