The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

Some truths are seen better through tears.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.

The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

It´s never too late to save time.

The more intense the belief, the less likely that reason and evidence can dislodge it.

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.

Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

Change is a given; growth, however, is optional.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.