“We are born into this world to love truth and be free, and ultimately nothing will keep us from either.”
Malcolm Muggeridge in Sunday Mirror, 1966, quoted in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
“Barbarism: the destruction of all that men have ever understood, by men who do not understand it.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News, August 5, 1933)
“It is better that a man should tyrannise over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.”
John Maynard Keynes
“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”
C.S. Lewis
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.”
John Paul II at World Youth Day in 2002
“I felt like a half-digested meal eaten in a greasy-spoon joint.”
the internal monologue of narrator Philip Marlowe in Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye
“Every sane man puts the cart before the horse. The cart is the important thing.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted in Gilbert Magazine July-August 2007