What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

There are no short cuts to Heaven only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world.

In space you don't stop.

Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you.

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.

When it gets easy, I worry about things.

Just because you cannot fight every evil does not mean you should fight no evils.

You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.