My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.