"The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended."

"The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop."

"To will not from self, but with the Eternal, is to live."

"A kind of love to the cheerful little stream arose in my heart. It was born in a desert; but it seemed to say to itself, "I will flow, and sing, and lave my banks, till I make my desert a paradise."

"Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly."

"Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds."

"The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home."

"But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide."

"Wherever there is anything to love, there is beauty in some form."

"It is because the young cannot recognize the youth of the aged, and the old will not acknowledge the experience of the young, that they repel each other."

"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?"

"Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure."

""Then what do you see?" asked Irene, who perceived at once that for her not to believe him was at least as bad as for him not to believe her."

"It is amazing from what a mere fraction of a fact concerning him a man will dare judge the whole of another man"

"Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them."

"The one principle of hell is – “I am my own"

"Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries."

"I am ready,' I replied. 'How do you know you can do it?' 'Because you require it,' I answered."

"If you're listening, I'm the walrus, too."

"When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration."

"There were few people, perhaps, more passionately fond of travelling, and seeing fresh places, and new scenes, than myself; but now, since, by the grace of God, I have seen beauty in the Lord Jesus, I have lost my taste for these things."

"God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops."

"Getting up to Zaire - getting ready to fight Muhammad Ali - I thought this will be a matter of just a little exercise. I'll probably knock him out in three rounds. Two, three - maybe three and a half rounds. That was the most confidence I had in my whole life."

"My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone."