A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour

Mother's love created our awe-inspiring moral sense

Love is unconditional selflessness

Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

Men are all alike. Grown-up children.

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.

The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.