A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.
Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.
Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow.
No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.
We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.
We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.
Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS
I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.
. . . the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.
And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.