It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

All new news is old news happening to new people