The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.