"Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places."

“I wish I was as fortunate as fortunate as me”

“This may sound like heresy, but it is the greatest truth! It is more difficult to let God love us, than to love Him! The best way to love Him in return is to open our hearts and let Him love us. Let Him draw close to us and feel Him close to us. This is really very difficult: letting ourselves be loved by Him. And that is perhaps what we need to ask today in the Mass: 'Lord, I want to love You, but teach me the difficult science, the difficult habit of letting myself be loved by You, to feel You close and feel Your tenderness ! May the Lord give us this grace.”

“Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.”

“Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.”

“I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.”

Source : Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”

“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”

Source : Attributed to Rommel‎'s "Infanterie Greift An" ("Infantry Attacks") (1937), in "World War II: The Definitive Visual History: from Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb" by Richard Holmes, p. 128, 2009.

“All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!”

“If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.”