The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so.

We can sanctify ourselves in common things. We must do so.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.