Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Whatever thing the mind can imagine, the eyes can see, the hands will soon handle.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

What is life, but one long risk?

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

I realised that you don't have to jump through a series of complicated hoops to achieve a goal.

The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.