To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

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.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

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.