It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

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

Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.

Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five.

You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.