Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.

Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.

If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

You're murderers, " she told the stunned crowd. "You killed him. He was a miracle, and you killed him. Now you've just got me. And I'm a curse.

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

On the path of love we don't feel we necessarily have control. In the yoga of love we feel it's only God who does everything. We can't breathe one breath without God.

Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?