Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.