Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
Taylor Caldwell
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
I have been the victim of heartless malice.
I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
I've always enjoyed poor health.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Money? I lost all taste for it.
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
At 8, I made a pact with God.
My dreams are all follies.
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
I will know him by his eyes.
I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
I'm not that interested in people.
I have anonymously helped many thousands.
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
My childhood was appalling.
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
I converse with my dog through ESP.
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
I am a Westerner of Westerners!
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
Tel Aviv appeals to me.
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
I often reread books I have written.
The world is a penal institution.
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.