Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower.
The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.
When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
I think there was something that made us not pay attention to climate change. Something that was up there. There was a saying when we were trying to pay attention to the environment that people used this phrase NIMBY - not in my back yard. People were saying, 'I don't care, it is not in my back yard. ' But now it's in everyone's back yard.
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.