“To grieve is the gift of the living — a gift so many of our kin have long lost”

“Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.”

“For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.”

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

“(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)”

“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”

“In private prayer we have a far greater advantage as so the exercise of our own gifts and graces and parts that we have in public…in public duties we are more passive, but in private duties we are more active. Now, the more our gifts and parts and graces are exercised, the more they are strengthened and increased. All acts strengthen habits. The more sin is acted, the more it is strengthened. And so it is with our gifts and graces; the more they are acted, the more they are strengthened.”

“To give every child the chance to be educated is a gift of promise. A gift of wonderment. A gift that opens up possibilities that can transform lives and develop thinkers, leaders, and creators of great art.”

“It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.”

“To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gift -absolute gifts- which have not been acquired by one's effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul.”