We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.