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.

Always seemed to me, as far as conscience goes, the sweet spot is you either be poor enough you can't afford to have one or rich enough you can afford to hire someone to carry the weight.

Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.

Death must be got through as life had been, just somehow.

I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, thats the reason I live here.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

Experiment is folly when experience shows the way.

Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.

Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

I have so many goals.