The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

What a blessing it is to love books.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

You are right... I am lonely. But unlike the rest of this world I am not lonely for anybody.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

Impossible is a word for other people to use when life scares them.

I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me.

I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.

Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

If you were a freak as a kid, you're an interesting adult.

The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.