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

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

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.

We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

One of the first things you learn as a leader, whether you choose the position of have it forced upon you, is that leadership is as much about what you don't say as what you do say.

AimlesslyIt pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. NoOne listens to poetry.— from "Thing Language

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was.

It is in an ennobled soul only that the universal powers can do their work, especially if body, mind and soul have been equally trained and developed.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.' 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.

There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.

God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!