The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness.

Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.

You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself

God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.

When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns.

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.