Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.

The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while that nitwit tries to hit if from the air.

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

In the end, it’s not about failure, it’s about how much you love what you do.