It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.