A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy."

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

"The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.