Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock.
Source: The Ministry of Fear, bk. 1, ch. 7, sct. 1 (1943).
-- Graham Henry Greene, (Oct 2 1904-1991), English novelist; He wrote 24 novels including, The Power and the Glory, 1940, and The Heart of the Matter, 1948.