Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in whom, and through whom alone mankind might still have hope. The person of Jesus Christ.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

I'm much too modest a person.

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.