She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.