Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.

My definition of success is control.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.

Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit.

Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue.