A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.

Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.

I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.

The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.

The poor need help today, not next week.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

Eat when you're hungry. Drink when you're thirsty. Sleep when you're tired.

Another thing I find extremely eerie is that when people build a house, they almost exactly get it wrong. They don't just get it partly wrong, they get it dead wrong.

It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.

In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.