A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.

Mary praise the rosary for my broken mind.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.

If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else is going to. So go for it. Find what makes you happy and do it.

I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.