The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .

Young people feel things so deeply, don't they?' she said quietly, almost to herself. 'Everything's happening for the first time.

There was no sign of her daughter, no sign of a small body crumpled by the railway.

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.

What's life without a little risk?-Sirius Black

I have no known marketable skills.

I do stuff that I don't even know I can do sometimes.

I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!