By aggrandizing one's own abilities and achievements, the grandiose person remains out of touch with who they truly are and as such, remains prone to crossing the boundaries of others.

Admitting pain humbles us to the reality of our personal histories and our present conditions. We no longer have to pretend we are something that we are not.

Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds.

The greater your ambition for the health of the world, the more sinister, diabolical, complex, and threatening the resistance you will meet.

The more a child is abused, the more the child uses his abilities to anticipate, manage, prevent, dismantle, and challenge the abusing ways of his parents.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I love you. I love you all the way.

Family's the most important thing.

Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle all womankind gently, and hold them in all Honor.

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]