I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven.

Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.