All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

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.

The most glorious moment you will ever experience in your life is when you look back and see how God was protecting you all this time.

Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist.

[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey.

If you wish to fault the administration, it is that we didn't have a clear picture and we probably didn't do as clear a job explaining that we did not have a clear picture until days later.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

Bold clean energy action is needed to stave off a climate hostile to human life.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.