I cannot call somebody ‘hard-working’ knowing only that they read and write. Even if ‘all night long’ is added, I cannot say it – not until I know the focus of all this energy.

Is it not the same distance to God everywhere?

Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer …’Well, isn’t it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?

Ego is like a mad elephant which is ridden by our blind heart and blind mind and which ultimately destroys our real selves

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

The design of redemption is to exhibit the grace of God in such a manner as to fill all hearts with wonder and all lips with praise.

You are not in the universe

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.

To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within.

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.