“We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.”

Adventures are never fun while you’re having them.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

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.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

God loves you, and this is something on which all our religious traditions are agreed.

They sayin I’m back, I agree with that.

Your very silence shows you agree.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.

I’d rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.