keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.

Christmas is waiting to be born: in you, in me, in all mankind.

The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.

There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.