For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.

They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all.

Everything God has given to us is “for rent.” We can only manage what we have but the right of ownership belongs to God.

Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.

Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.

The earth is, of course, not the geometric center of the universe. But it is certainly the center of our lives.

We are taught what reality is in all kinds of ways.

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!

The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.