Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered.

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

When I say 'God' it is poetry and not theology

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.

I craved to make my faith as real as possible, which meant being recklessly honest in His presence.

Mountain is mountain.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.

I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.

If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.

You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

My father and I, we finally saw each other eye to eye and I think he's seeing me as a man, and I'm seeing him as the father he's always been.