A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.