To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.

A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.