“For adventure is not outside a man it is within. ”

“Contentment and indeed usefulness comes as the infallible result of great acceptances great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.”

“What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid boundless colored mutability!-Life in the making?”

“We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.”

“No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.”

“Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.”

“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...”