Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.