"Our Lord speaks of many coming up to His door confident of admission, whom He yet sends away. Faith is obedience, not confidence."

"His little heart was so full of merriment that it could not hold it all, and it ran over into theirs."

"I am a beast until I love as God doth love."

"A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician."

"There is no way of making three men right but by making right each one of the three; but a cure in one man who repents and turns, is a beginning of the cure of the whole human race."

"But in the meantime you must be content, I say, to be misunderstood for a while. We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be."

"Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means!"

"I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence."

"…for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;"

"Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel."

"What does it all mean?' I said. 'A good question,' he rejoined: 'nobody knows what anything is; a man can learn only what a thing means. Whether he do, depends on the use he is making of it."

"But I don't quite understand, Father: is nobody your friend but the one that does something for you?"

"You allowed me existence, which is the sum of what one can demand of his fellow-beings"

"I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking."

"The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken."

"How kind you are, North Wind!' 'I am only just. All kindness is but justice. We owe it."

"But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!" Not what he pleases, but what he can."

"Where was God? In him and his question."

"Now Gibbie had been honoured with the acquaintance of many dogs, and the friendship of most of them, for a lover of humanity can hardly fail to be a lover of caninity."

"One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them ..."

"God is just like Jesus – exactly like him!"

"Many a wrong, and it's curing song, many a road, and many an inn, Room to roam, but only one home, for all the world to win. George MacDonald, (Lilith)"

"But he remembered that even if she did box his ears, he musn't box hers again, for she was a girl, and all that boys must do, if girls are rude, is to go away and leave them."

"If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise."

"Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind."

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"...as no one can be just without love, so no one can truly report without understanding."

"No one, however strong he may feel his obligations, will ever be man enough to fulfill them except that he be a Christian-that is,one who, like Christ, cares first for the will of the Father."

"There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high, eternal contest!"

"In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night."

"I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays."

"I drag my myth around with me."

"As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect."

"If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'"

"Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars."

"Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of."

"The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can."

"I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions."

"The basic and essential human is the woman."

"I don't think any word can explain a man's life."

"I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God."

"We will sell no wine before its time."

"I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with."

"A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had."

"The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him."

"I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts."

"I don't take art as seriously as politics."

"I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician."

"I'm a lurid character!"

"It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations."