When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.