"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable."

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."