I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

We never solve the big questions

One note does not make a symphony

Ah. And then you kill him.""No, " Arkwright replied patiently. "We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{...}

I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

There was nothing so real on the prairie as winter, nothing so memorable.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.