Toil is the true knight's pastime.

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.

Kingsley nodded. 'Of course. Sophia always did say wisdom had to be earned.

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

Don't be afraid to stand out. . .

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

I’d like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God.

In almost every single way, George and I share the same values. And if we differ on some issues, it's very, very minor.

I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it.

I don't want to cry. Everyone will make note of my tears and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I will give no one that satisfaction.

He wants to put his story next to hers.