The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971.

if you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.