It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.