The past beats inside me like a second heart.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

We can burst the bonds which chain us, Which cold human hands have wrought, And where none shall dare restrain usWe can meet again, in thought.

He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.

True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow. If it does, it’s not confidence at all…it’s ego.

"Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it".

Love guides the stars towards each other, the world plan endures only through love.

Sense will always have attractions for me.

I'm like the kid that crams for tests and never remembers anything.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.