“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.” 

“My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.” 

“There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point” 

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.

Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

There is no such thing as failure, only results.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

“I’m no wizard, and I don’t like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don’t want to be thought of in that way.”

“Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.”

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

“Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.”

“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other

The greatest mistake is to think you are too strong to fall into temptation. Put your finger in the fire and it will burn. So we have to go through the fire.

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself

We interfere with God’s plans when we push in someone or something else not suitable for us. Be strict with yourself, and then be very strict with what you are receiving from the outside.