The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

Only a few things in life matter a little. The rest don’t matter at all.

The importance of little things is underrated just because they are small, but the influence of the little things for good or evil is great. They supply much of the actual discipline of life for every human being. They are part of the training of the soul in the sanctification of all our entrusted talents to God. Faithfulness in the little things in the line of duty makes the worker in God’s service reflect more and more the likeness of Christ. — That I May Know Him, p. 331.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Where is it written that one should only care about big things?

To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell.

Everything important to us — the universe, the planet, the country, your company, your life, and this very moment — is singular.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

The <i>only</i> thing worth writing about is people. <i>People</i>. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight.

Love is the only gold.