True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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.

A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.

True poetry is embarrassing.

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls

It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well.

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.

For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.