Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

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.

Dreams are a beautiful bride that holds our hands to enter a world more gloriousthan this one.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see - it is rather a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

Folklore is artistic communication in small groups.

Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.

If you like Hank, you'll like Wilder Good, too.

We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.