"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."

"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong deisre to live taking the form of a readiness to die."

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

"I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it."

"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."

"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."

"I'm still an atheist, thank God."

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

"You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable."