There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast, ' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

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.

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

Discovery's friend is creativity

You would be surprise with how much you could achieve in life, if you are willing to try, fail, learn from your failure, and try again and again until you succeed.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

But everyone has a touch of madness, and those who can't admit it are usually farther gone than the rest of us.

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

Light belongs to the heart and spirit. Light attracts people, it shows the way, and when we see it in the distance, we follow it.

An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.