Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written.

Be glad for your sacred days on earth.

There is no better way to live God’s way than to have His Word in your heart and mind.

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

I'm so used to Australian films not getting a release outside Australia.

You're never going to please everyone - you might as well be who God made you to be.

It's really amazing that I was discovered and that I've been given these great opportunities to travel the world and work with amazing artists. I'm very blessed.

The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.