This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.