The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

It takes about five years for a walnut tree to produce nuts but this is not true of a family tree.

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

It is destroying me that I cannot ask you to dance.

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.

If it makes you happy it can't be that bad

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.