A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

I have a mouth for kisses / No one to give or to take / I have a heart in my bosom / Beating for nobody's sake.

A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.

My bedspread isn't washable. Since my bedding has to be washed every day, I'll have to throw it out.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

If you don't vote, you're a moron.

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.