There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.