The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.