Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for 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.

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.