I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Reality blithely ignores the lies we tell ourselves about it.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Information can be such a double-edged sword.

Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!

We need to stand together with all of the victims [ of sexual harassment] and make sure they are not silenced.

I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.