Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.
Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.
Christ became one of us to redeem all of us.
Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to their attitude. Things happen rapidly in the country; something new always comes along to divert them and it isn't necessarily another calamity.