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.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

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.

This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the prelude of the true world, the true life.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.

The less event and action there is in a scene the more I can enter into it.