Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.

I was out walking the other evening. This fellow accosted me, and asked if that was the moon up there in the sky. I replied that I had no idea, as I was a stranger there myself.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.