And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

You can't have the family farm without the family.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.