I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do the draughts are open and my chimney draws and I am happy.

Rise up to the Divine don't bring Godhead to your human and even animal levels. Do not worship God as the picture before you but worship the picture before you as God because God is in everything and can be grasped through every single symbol.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Flattery is a kind of bad money to which our vanity gives us currency.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself and so masters them.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues, capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

A society has to be welded into a unit by the consciousness of kinship in God.

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