If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the earth are the means by which you evolve.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

I'm living a life. I have nine children.