“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men....”

“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”

“He that is jealous is not in love.”

“Love is the beauty of the soul.”

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“The time to hesitate is through.”

“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.”