There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

All great and precious things are lonely.

By becoming a writer I realized that I will live forever.” – Manos Filippou, Author

The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said.

A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

The New Health Rules is the new manifesto for how to eat well, feel good, and live long. If you ever wondered what's really true about the things that work and the things that don't, look no further.

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.