And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

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.

Parents ought to pray for their children.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.

I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherfucker is still here.

Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.