Quotes from Taylor Caldwell

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

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

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

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

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

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.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

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

My dreams are all follies.

surcease, and this Keptah noted. The force of the spirit, he reflected, can often keep death at bay, and faith can sometimes accomplish the impossible.

What is it Aristotle said? 'Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.' Yes. Populism is becoming popular in America—an old doctrine, though its adherents invariably think it is a new one, age after age.

An evil man was more bearable to the majority of men than a good man, who was a constant reproach and therefore to be despised.

With the help of God I shall be kinder than my brother, and shall strive for virtue. It is my duty to aspire above my human nature.'"*

The gods have said, and the Greeks also, that when a man wishes to evade his duties he can summon any illness to assist him

La búsqueda de D•os y la revelación final son las únicas cosas que dan sentido a la vida del hombre.

When you are young you believe the world is all yours, glorious and exhilarating and fascinating and full of promise and trumpets and drums and marches and new worlds," said Charles. "We don't ask ourselves what we are living for then. We know. But we forget, later, or it all seems a foolish dream.

Non omnis moriar [No moriré del todo]».

Once he said to his mother, "Do not ask me what is wrong with me, for I do not know. When I reach into my mind I encounter nothing but

dustiness, yet in that dustiness I always feel the movement of pain. I am afraid to penetrate deeper.

Nadie es esclavo, por muy atado y encadenado que esté, hasta que admite que lo es.

bien. Es tan poderoso como la virtud y en muchos casos