“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”

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.

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

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

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment – both begin within.

Where do we begin? Begin with the heart.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.