If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.