The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

Don't neglect the gifts in you. Power reserved is function suspended. The day you choose to switch on your passion is the day you will see your dunamis power in you. Be inspired!

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

I'm racist against non-black people.

I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.

I thank to all the shadows and all the darknesses of my life; it is owing to them that I now love the light much more than ever before!

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.