Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that...
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way...
Take away hatred from some people and you have men without faith.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains there is no...
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but...
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith...
It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings...
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure...
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true...
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the...
In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find...
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the...
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd but then more women than men I think read and write poetry.
