When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

Every pain is a lesson.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.