“For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.”

“We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.”

“The journey is everything. Most necessary of all, but rarest good fortune, we should try to find some man of our own sort who will go with us and to whom we can say the first thing that comes into our heads. For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.”

“Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.”

“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”