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

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

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.

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

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.

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.