On Life:
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
On Happiness:
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
On Courage:
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
On God:
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
On Christianity:
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.