I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems to learn to solve. I asked for prosperity, and God gave me a brain and brawn to work. I asked for courage, and God gave me dangers to overcome. I asked for love, and God gave me people to help. I asked for favors, and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.

There can be accidental moments when people on the left make money…The danger of accumulating wealth is the danger of corruption. You begin to associate with that class of the economic elite, you begin to like it, and you begin to hedge.