Taylor Caldwell quotes:

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

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

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.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

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

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

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

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are. -- A Prologue to Love

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

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

The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

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

My dreams are all follies.

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

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

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.

I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

I converse with my dog through ESP

I've always enjoyed poor health

Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

I have anonymously helped many thousands.

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

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

God's 'failures' are really man's failures ...

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

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.

I am a Westerner of Westerners!

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

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

I have anonymously helped many thousands

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

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

I often reread books I have written

If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.

If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

I'm not that interested in people

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

It is not always wise to appear singular.

Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of Eden, the hand that raised up obscenities and blasphemies. Man was the pariah-dog, the moral leper in this translucent mirror of Heaven. He was the muddier of crystal waters, the despoiler of forests, the murderer of the innocent, the challenger against God. He was the assassin of the saints and the prophets, for they spoke of what he WOULD NOT HEAR, in the darkness of his spirit!

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

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

Money? I lost all taste for it.

My childhood was appalling.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

My literary success meant nothing to me

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

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

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living...

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God's,

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

The world is a penal institution.

There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

We are not old unless we desire to be.

We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world

You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences, their suspicions of each other, their religious hostilities, and band together as one unit. Leaders know that, and that is why so many of them whip up wars during periods of national crisis, or when the people become discontented and angry. This is the explanation of all wars, all racial and religious hatreds, all massacres, and all attempts at genocide.