What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

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.

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

I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people who live in non-free societies, that the benefit, the dividend of living in a free society is that you say what you think.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?"

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