I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?