Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Reach for the stars.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!