Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed

The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.