A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life.

I have seen the dark universe yawningWhere the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

And I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes, like puzzle pieces from the clay.

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you'll never realize God.

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count

Surveys show that surveys never lie.