Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Yet 'Reality' is just whatever illusion we believe in

This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.

I can’t hate you. We’re too connected. I can’t hate you without hating me.

Each day, I count 100 times my blessings. What sacred-thanks?

We need to use the mind of Christ to subdue the earth and bring the glory of the earth back to the master.

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.

Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.

Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.