Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.

There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.

God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

For me, making any kind of resolution or saying, "I'm doing this!" can only cause pain, to get very deep.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.