Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

Come, live with me and you'll know me.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mountain people. But those who know best say this, that any liberal man would choose the pain of this desire, even for ever, rather than the peace of feeling it no longer; and that though the best thing is to have, the next best is to want, and the worst of all is not to want.