Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

There is no straight road to finding yourself, to making something.

As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values.

The important thing is that he shook hands with us over the phone.

That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Even though he was here, she couldn't quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again. Yep, still there. Amazing.

Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.

We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing.

Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.