“The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he cant play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since ...”

“England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call on the truth of the whole matter is very simp...”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”

“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.”

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”

“I've never heard anyone say "I wish I hadn't forgiven.”

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness an...”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”