An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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.

Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others

Lies are taught by force, truth is taught by choice.

Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last.

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.

He asked for a specific. I gave him a specific. I'm sorry it wasn't puppies.

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.