He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.