Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.