Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot.

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.