“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”

“We are what we believe we are.”

“Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public de...”

“What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my edu...”

“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

“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.”