You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

If he put us in dresses, we wouldn't suddenly become women

Obedience to God will bring blessings to you and others.

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

Movie offers are out there for me, I just don't hear them yet.

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?