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.

it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.

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.

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.

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

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