Pastoral Resources

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.