I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.