“Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.”

Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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.

Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

Avoidance. Probably the worst dance. – Complicated.

You can never change what you don’t confront and transform what you avoid.

The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.