Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Religious nuts, atheists, theists, as too most scientists fail to "get" IT - the Ultimate Reality - because they seek it through ego.

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

To be restored to Christ is to know a fulfilled life

The human race is governed by its imagination.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.