By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.