You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

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.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.