We think we are pushing our own way bravely, but there is a great Hand in ours all the time.

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

The world you desire can be won. It exists...it is real...it is possible...it's yours.

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

Dare not choose in your minds the work you would like to do when you leave the Home of the Students. You shall do what the Council of Vocations shall prescribe for you.

O my Lord and Savior, in Your arms I am safe. Keep me and I have nothing to fear. . . . I know nothing about the future, but I rely upon You. I pray that You would give me what is good for me.

there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

We are very very small. But we are profoundly capable of very very big things.