People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

Faith is the force of life.