Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve the kitchen-sink revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school.

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.