Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

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.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

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.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

Theres far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

All new news is old news happening to new people.

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Toleration is the best religion.

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.