Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.

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.

As for Percy, he held his magic ballpoint pen like he was trying to decide whether to bust out some sword moves or autograph Nike’s chariot.

It is insanity to expect to live in peace when always we are getting ready for war.

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

Feeling old? Remember, you will never again be as young as your are today.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.