"It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself."

"A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer."

"The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself."

"People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it."

"As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book."

"There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection."

"I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."

"All that is not God is death."

"Philosophy is really homesickness."

"It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another."

"No story ever really ends, and I think I know why."

"Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans."

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

"Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy."

"To try to be brave is to be brave."

"Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing."

"Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly."

"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

"Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw."

"Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead."

"Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven"

"Avant Garde is French for bullshit."