Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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

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

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.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

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.