Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

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.

Grace is a great mercy of God.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.

I don't go on vacation. I don't really need vacation.

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

The first CD I had, that I think had had any redeeming qualities to it, I did when I was 25 with a relatively small label called Chiarascuro.

I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show.

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.