For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

Change can only take place if we desire the change.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

You do not know what you will earn tomorrow.

Debtors will seek to cancel their debts. Creditors will try to collect, and the more they succeed, the more they will impoverish the economy.

We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving.

Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.