Travel, of course, narrows the mind.- Malcolm Muggeridge
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I have known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we have developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
