No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.