"There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable."

"I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story."

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

"Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."

"Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle."

"The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad."

"Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we."

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

"We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget."

"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

"It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."

"There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable."

"I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story."

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

"Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."

"Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle."

"The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad."