Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.