Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold read more

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never read more

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - read more

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own read more

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way.

Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.