How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.