As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the p... - G.K. Chesterton

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."

"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 man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world."

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

"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."