But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.

I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.