“You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.”

I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

Love as distinct from “being in love” is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

You can make anything by writing.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Impossible means that you haven’t found a solution yet.

The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

If they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.