The very rich are no different; they just have more money. The real difference in this world is not between the rich and the poor but between those who create and those incapable of creation.

Nobody is more of a patriot than I am, but I’ve very little confidence in politicians and even less confidence in wars.

What could be more rational than the decision to use my gifts in a way which would most clearly manifest my moral and intellectual convictions?’ My.

It is an author’s primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he’s pining for the moon.

It doesn’t do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don’t respect you for it.

The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.

There’s a pattern. Never, never doubt that there’s a pattern. There’s a pattern always. Everywhere. In everyone.

Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it’s not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn’t turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.