Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.