My literary success meant nothing to me

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India

We, 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.

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

We are not old unless we desire to be.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

Saints 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.