Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Read Summary
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. Read Summary
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. Read Summary
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. Read Summary
To love beauty is to see light. Read Summary
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. Read Summary
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. Read Summary
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Read Summary
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. Read Summary
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. Read Summary
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Read Summary
To love another person is to see the face of God. Read Summary
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. Read Summary
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. Read Summary
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. Read Summary
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. Read Summary
There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. Read Summary
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Read Summary
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Read Summary
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. Read Summary