Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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 way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

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

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.