But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

We can only love what we know.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

Just so you know a weapon, a body armour can never be a fashion accessory.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild.

The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.