Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.

Nobody can fight properly and boldly for the faith if he clings to a fear of being stripped of earthly possessions.

We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour.

Through a woman [Eve] a curse fell upon the earth; through a woman [Mary] as well there returned to the earth a blessing.

And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.

I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Your skin is so soft. Smells like...-She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting him as she did so. Sheer, unadulterated fear?

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'

Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.