Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.

Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians.

The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.

Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me!

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The heavens declare the glory of God.The heavens declare the majesty King.The heavens declare the marvellous Lord.The heavens declare the mighty Saviour.

A wife and a husband! For infinite lifetimes this is all one has done. And in doing so, one has lost his Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!

Agni was her brother and she loved him, and he often understood her, but he was a man. In the end he thought as a man thinks, of owning and mastering.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.