Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

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.

If achieving a desired goal was easy why would anyone bother. There'd be no fun.

If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes...

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.

I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.

We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.