If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

faith, it seems to me, is not the holding of certain dogmas; it is simply openness and readiness of heart to believe any truth which God may show.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.