Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.