... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.