Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.

I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.