Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress, /And you shall sleep restful nights

Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

I think whoever is the president [he] must guard your liberties, must not erode your rights in America.

Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.

I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

Where there is no peace, prayers are not heard.

The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep, kneeling before the Cross.

Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.