Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me.

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.

This will be a winter so desolate, only memory can fill the emptiness

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.

The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.

Angels and ministers of grace defend us.