Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in His Service, and so doing we shall please Him.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Life is a series of puzzles

I am who Iam, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled.(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.

Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

I want to play interesting women.

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.