To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

Action means carrying out your plan to fruition, moving forward with projects, meeting and exceeding expectations.

But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool, soaked through with the sweet chloroform of utter sadness. - Ward 9

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

Find your own way, have an open spirit, and believe in your own beauty.

It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.