In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of society.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way.

(...) My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.

Keep trying is success and giving up is failure.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

If you've not been loved as a child, you don't know how to love a child.

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I love that Highland burr.

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

Halfway measures are not enough.

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.