If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.

Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

I came alive when I started loving you.