The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.