the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

God is merciful to those who want to love Him and who have placed their hopes in Him.

Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

Nothing soulful is birthed from force.

No matter what's going on in your life, don't let anybody take those dreams from you.

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.