A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

I write to prove that we lived. I write both to remember and to let go. I write because I can't stop, not until this horrible story of ours is over and we're safe at home.

Nice day for a funeral.

Energy is the currency of the universe. When you 'pay' attention to something, you buy that experience.

I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.

Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".

The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.