Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we... - G.K. Chesterton

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."

"A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

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

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