The War will leave none of us as it found us.

if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

You can't conceive the perverse ingenuity he could put into hiding his affections.

She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

The Lord is concerned about the poor receiving justice and that they are not neglected or cheated.

I don't think I remember my first memory

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.