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

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

The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.

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.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.