Is there world enough for me?

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

With God there is no need for long speeches.

Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic.

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

An evil discovered is half healed.

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.

The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.