There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you’ve got all the advantages, if you’re attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females.

A moment’s reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.

Certainly, it isn’t a ghost story where people go into a haunted house. There have been two or three made on that basis, but I didn’t want to do that.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

Do not be scrupulous and think it selfish. You are obeying God’s call and giving Him the opportunity to teach you what He wants you to know.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

I’d never seen any television before I started.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I’m tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

With the passing of the Age of Materialism, the West knows once more that the development of an organism is the unfolding of a soul.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say “when.”

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you’re just playing about.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go...

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

I’d written a book of short stories that had won the Somerset Maugham prize so I was respectable, but there was no money in short story writing.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sport for Americans.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ‘What is truth?’

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that’s what it is.

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

I’m in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

You don’t have to be peculiar to find God.