 Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. |
| One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've 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. |
| My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. |
| One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. Topics: Age |
| Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. |
| An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation. |
| The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment. |
| Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. |
| History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. |
| There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. |
| Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. |
| Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. |
| 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. |
| I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. |
| Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. |
| This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've 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. |
| He was not only a bore; he bored for England. |
| Travel, of course, narrows the mind. |
| St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. |
| 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. |
