What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.