In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

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

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.