Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

He was making music - Howells, Finzi, Holst - so you could see the sounds in the serried air.Serried. Then just as suddenly empty when his sound-proof right hand closed off the notes.

They were more free, but they were more alone.

You want to prove you never stopped loving me?” She got up and stared down at me. “Start by trusting me with the truth.

I watched the stars and thought of other lives.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

I want to know all of you, Kitten. What you show me, and what you try not to.

Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.