In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.