We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Hey, Carrots, " he says.

Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him.

I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!

Be living witnesses of the greatness and beauty of Christianity.

The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game.

Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

Treasure your exceptions.