"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street."

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

"He who inspires courage in a single soul has led a monumental campaign. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The soul is healed by being with children."

"In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled."

"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."