When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.