The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

I keep the light and love from my ancestors and let go of the rest.

Actions become very effective when they meet the habit of consistency.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.

Girls' education is the single best investment that any society can make.

Good things don't happen to the child of God; the child of God brings forth good things out of him.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.