“One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.”

“We cannot always cry at the right timeand who is to say which time is right?”

“Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.”

“There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.”

“The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.”

“If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.”

“Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.”