Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

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.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

As much as I respect him, he is somewhat of an ignorant fool.

Don't let the meanies get you down.

We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see rates below seven percent into early next year.

[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.