The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.

The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which our Enemy has of reality of whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered to them.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.