God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.

But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.