The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

I bet you to believe me when I say again that we do not need a great house, Sarah. We only need a great love.

Why was the meeting between the Americans and the Russians so tensed?Because nobody knows what Vladimir Put In Barbara’s Bush! From 'Walk On By II

Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.