What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.

Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power.

Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.

So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.