All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.

When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.

For a peaceful life, always think of peace and forget to judge others.

Such kings can destroy a world, just as easily as they can build one.

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.