Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor the best opportunities they will never come.

The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.

Whatever yerz’re lookin’ for, I hope yerz find it. Yerz moight’ve never lost it!

It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

I don't get a chance to be home much.

I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

I was wracked with insecurity.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.