[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

Be attached to nothing. Be grateful for everything.

He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter.

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook...

I don't want to be in an art bubble.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

You can't let haters stop you.

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.