Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.