God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

But still, " Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.""You may be right, " Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.

Right now I'm scoring goals and I'm the king of the world. And a couple weeks ago I was almost in the toilet. So maybe you just forget to flush me.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.

A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.

Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.

He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.

The challenge is to write about real things magically.