There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

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.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Few mistakes can be made by a mother-in-law who is willing to baby-sit.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

Your actions become your habits. Don't let yourself make a pattern of slipups or they'll become habits!

The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

Trump keeps the spotlight on himself with one act after another, assuming correctly that yesterday's antics will be swept aside by today's.

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.