I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Pleasure blinds the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

...to point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon...

Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know.

We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waitingto be born.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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.

He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage . . . to listen to his own goodness.