St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason