He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

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.

Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?

True art comes from the anonymous self.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.

There is a branding influence on my work. But there's nothing really new about people as brands. The only difference is the scale and exposure.

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

Beer soothes the upset soul.