None of you ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and…

Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Man was formed for society.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.