It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

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

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.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.