The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle