There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.

What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity.

Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.

Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart.

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

Always put the unknown future into the hands of the known God. He has the key it will take to unlock your locked doors.

Speaking about work isn’t working.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.