“Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.”

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It’s a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.