I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything el…

- Morris West

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

- Morris West

No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove…

- Morris West

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature …

- Morris West

In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never…

- Morris West

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

- Morris West

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

- Morris West

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

- Morris West

It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether t…

- Morris West