Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.

If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

Both Heaven and Hell are retroactive, all of one's life will eventually be known to have been one or the other.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

Her death...brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault.

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

What we did see was that jealousy is fear: it can corrode even if quite baseless.

Even the laziest person will fight for oxygen when drowning.

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

I'm very, very close to my mum and dad. My mum is only nineteen years older than me, so she could be my older sister, which is really nice.

Whatever the 25 guys on the roster, it’s my job to get the most out of those guys.

To get where you want to go, you can't only do what you like.

My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.

Making people laugh was automatic.

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.