It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

—Muriel Spark

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

—Muriel Spark

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

—Muriel Spark

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

—Muriel Spark

Mabel Pettigrew thought: I can read him like a book. She had not read a book for over forty years, could never concentrate on reading, but this nevertheless was her thought.

—Muriel Spark

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

—Abraham Lincoln

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

—James Branch Cabell

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

—William J. H. Boetcker

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

—A. Whitney Brown

Character is what a man is in the dark.

—Dwight L. Moody