In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?

The longest way round is the shortest way home

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.