It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.