It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

In any situation, I ask “What can I do for myself”.

There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Let's begin creating miracles now.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.