For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

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.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

I cannot fail to call the congregation to worship God, to listen to his Word, to offer themselves to God.

Living in L.A., I was completely lost - and I enjoyed it.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.