So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?”“Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.

If Mere Christianity helps make Christianity comprehensible, Orthodoxy makes it weird again.

Starting something can be easy, it is finishing it that is the highest hurdle.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

Think of everybody you talk to as having a flashing sign on their chest saying: Make me feel special!

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Being in Russia filming War & Peace...filming War & Peace alone is an extraordinary experience, but to be out there was just magical.

you never forget your first fall.

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to see-that I won't get to see-any of the wonder that's inside of you.