We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.