Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

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.

I would rather fail doing God's work than have a pseudo-victory being co-opted by someone else.

Turn your fears into excitement.Your anxieties into enthusiasm. Your passion into energy.

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.

The truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

I think every woman goes through a relationship where she is with a guy that is really not right for her. You get lost in it.

I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.