I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

Fear, " the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

My dear, how can I make you perceive that there is no danger where there is nothing but love and understanding?

She wants her cup of stars.

The word of God renewed my mind.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.

The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.

When I tap, it means I've accepted the technique, learned the lesson and look to apply the experience next time I step on the mat. I never give up.

Where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.