There's a wideness in God's mercy Like the wideness of the sea Oratory Hymns.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

If the party of gloom is ever to regain its footing, it will have to start by understanding that those who defeated them are not a bunch of ignorant yahoos looking forward to Armageddon.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.