The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

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.