“All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.”

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.