We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.

If his surroundings could have reflected the feelings inside him, the pictures would have been screaming in pain.

You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You.

Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.

They [Muslims] are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so, then racist I must be - and happy and proud, to be so.

Capital isn't hard to find; intuition, yes.