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" The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. "

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" Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. "

" I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. "

" Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. "

" Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. "

" Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. "

" Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. "

" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. "

" It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one. "

" Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. "

" This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. "

" Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. "

" With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. "

" Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. "

" The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. "

" Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church. "

" We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. "

" Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. "

" Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones. "

" If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. "

" Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them. "

" Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. "

" Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out. "

" Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. "

" No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. "

" It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. "

" Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success. "

" A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. "

" The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. "

" If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. "