As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.

Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make angels out of demons.

An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

You're worried about her forgiving you...but you need to be worrying about why you're acting up in the first place.

Every nation has the government that it deserves.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

What is true is true, and what is false is false.

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

I had my schooling right there in the Cotton Club.

We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.