The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. ... It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.