Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

It's all about money. Sometimes it is merciful, sometimes it is magnificent and sometimes it is moderate

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won.

It's not compromise if it doesn't sting just a little bit on both sides, now is it?

Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modern times!

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north.

The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.