Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

From hopelessness within the mind rises hope itself

What you don't sweat out when you're young will turn into tears when you're old.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

You are my lover, you're my best friend. You're in my soul.

A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate