"You save yourself or you remain unsaved."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

"For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible."

"In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others."

"I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!"

"You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it."

"The dog is a gentleman"

"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it."

"Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it."

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

"Music is the literature of the heart"

"Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you."