If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.

...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car.

That's the trouble with you preachers, " he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything, " and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.

Everything is still everything.The Poem Remains.

To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

I sometimes say to people, "I am a window frame - no more. The window frame is not that important. What is important is the light that comes through the window.

Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever.

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.