It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.