“Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions.”

“If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.”

“All of my work has been leading to this”

“Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.”

“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.”