Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.