One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

It's crap that you're letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

Everyone should be respected by the law, and everyone should respect the law.

Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company.

We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

I will move with the wind.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.