Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred, since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other, you can no more separate them than you can separate the two sides of a coin.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

Don't waste hate on pink geranium.

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.