The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.
I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.
it is in middle age that the interest of a life attains its highest point.
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
Life is a solitude.
The way to do much in a short time is to love much. People will do great things if they are stirred with enthusiasm and love.
It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.
Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.
[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though. . . nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.