It is for the artist. . . in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.
You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
there is no reasoning with imagination.
They will do anything for the worker, except become one.