“As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.”

The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most.

Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

The truth is that I’m more afraid of marriage than of death.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.

I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.