In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

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.

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

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

All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.

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

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.