It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.