We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

Shape up or ship out!

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Bad planing on your part does not necessarily constitute an automatic emergency on my part.

Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.

. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

Preferment goes by letter and affection.

The only cure for grief is action.

Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754 The separate creaturely life, as opposed to life in union with God, is only a life of various appetites, hungers, and wants, and cannot possibly be anything else. God Himself cannot make a creature to be in itself, or in its own nature, anything else but a state of emptiness. The highest life that is natural and creaturely can go no higher than this: it can only be a bare capacity for goodness and cannot possibly be a good and happy life but by the life of God dwelling in it and in union with it. And this is the two-fold life that, of all necessity, must be united in every good and happy and perfect creature.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.