Taylor Caldwell
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.Collection: Money
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.Collection: Pet
I've always enjoyed poor health.Collection: Health
Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.Collection: Christmas
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.Collection: Medical
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.Collection: Learning
At 8, I made a pact with God.
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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.
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
I converse with my dog through ESP.
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
I have been the victim of heartless malice.
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
I am a Westerner of Westerners!
I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
Tel Aviv appeals to me.
My childhood was appalling.
My dreams are all follies.
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
I often reread books I have written.
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
The world is a penal institution.
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
My literary success meant nothing to me.
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
I have anonymously helped many thousands.
I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
I am the skeptic of skeptics.