The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

The bolt of Tash falls from above!' 'Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism.

Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.