Quotes from Taylor Caldwell

We all choose how to look at life. -- A Prologue to Love

Everyone living is doomed

Mr. Forbes opened his eyes. "If you'll let me, sir," he said sharply. "Were you ever a member of the Communist Party? Are you a member now?" My father leaned back in his chair. "No, son, I'm a Republican," he replied.

There is nothing stronger and nobler than when man and wife are of one heart and mind in a house. A grief to their foes, and to their friends great joy. But their own hearts know it best.

We all feel inadequate very often. It's only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one's emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.

Man and the State. Always must they be enemies, for men had been given freedom by God and the State hated God, and loathed men and everlastingly fought against the rights of men. The liberty of the individual defied the luxury and the privileges of those who deemed themselves greater and wiser than their fellows, and wished to enslave their brothers. The

Piety without joy, faith without cheer, duty without pleasure, prayer without delight—these do not please the Lord God.

Life is a comedy for the man who thinks, a tragedy for the man who feels.

He still gazed at me, but I was confused. "It is not new that men confuse material prosperity with blessedness, and fail to value spiritual prosperity.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

Honest men live on charity in their age; the almshouses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are the fools and the saints.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.