Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer’s attention.

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

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.