“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.”

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.

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.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

The test of happiness is gratitude.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us.