O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.

That's what I wanted. Something to enrich me, to make me feel better about the things in my life that I could never change." - Page 56

Christ can take the most sin-laden, selfish, evil person and bring forgiveness and new life.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.

Eventually everyone has to die, except Elvis.

It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.