Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.