Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself.)

If things are real, they're there all the time.

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.