In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Life should be great rather than long.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Live to the point of tears.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Any place I hang my head is home.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.