Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.