A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

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

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.

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.