Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself.

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams