Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

A little lie is like a little pregnancy it doesn't take long before everyone knows.

There seems no plan because it is all plan.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

It is often little things that are hardest to stand.