Best Quotes

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories…And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.