We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.