The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.

I always ask myself. Who was it that dyed my heart black, and left a spot for it to grow out from it?

Light existed all along. Of course it did. Who says it didn't because I couldn't see it?

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

Mind my own business.

Frankly, our technology is not up to date. We're letting it slip by.

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

Van Gogh was impulsive.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

I love everything special or unique. Sometimes I love girly clothes, sometimes I love strong boy looks. You never know what is the next look of Ming.

(Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short.