I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
Taylor CaldwellThough I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
Taylor CaldwellIt is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
Taylor CaldwellThe budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
Taylor CaldwellDespair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.
Taylor CaldwellThe American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.
Taylor CaldwellContrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.
Taylor CaldwellNo woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me
Taylor CaldwellIf genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Taylor CaldwellCorrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
Taylor CaldwellDon't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
Taylor Caldwell. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
Taylor CaldwellI never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
Taylor CaldwellSaints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.
Taylor CaldwellEven the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Taylor CaldwellWe, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world.
Taylor CaldwellIt is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.
Taylor CaldwellFreedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.
Taylor Caldwell