F. L. Lucas Quotes

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

And again, hast thou valued Patience, Courage, Perseverance, Openness to light; readiness to own thyself mistaken, to do better next time

Put your choices in perspective.

It may feel good to think you're right. But it's better to allow the possibility that you're wrong.

All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.

Think before you speak. Think before you judge. Think before you think you have a person all figured out.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I try not to be overly analytical.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

You never agree with any one candidate 100 percent. I don't agree with myself 100 percent.

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.