There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

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.

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

If it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere.

No one, not even lovers, are truly psychic, and everyone flounders around each other, misunderstanding, misinterpreting, sending out confusing signals.

When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.