An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

I'm a teacher, a motivator. That's what I do. And I'm a protector on top of that.

Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender

People don't necessarily want or need to be done unto as you would have them do unto you. They want to be done unto as they want to be done unto.