See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and John were permitted to see Him in His glory. For that brief while they had no need of faith. The vision vanished, and the memory of it did not prevent them from all forsaking Him when He was arrested, or Peter from denying that he had ever known Him.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.