the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

scales are the grammar of music.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

I look a girl in the eye and it was a very long love story with thunder and kisses and lightning. I live fast.

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

Even in the tough times, He's still a good God.

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.

To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others.

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.

The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state.

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.