For the great benefits of our being- our life health and reason-we look upon ourselves.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Heavy burden is laid on our hearts, so we do not trust in ourselves. But in God, who gives grace for endurance.

Everybody has dreams and goals. All you have to do is dig them up.

We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

You always want your friends to like who you're seeing.

What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?

I want to be only a poor friar who prays - if God sees blemishes even in the angels, can you imagine what He sees in me!

But overall I want to make sure people fall in love with the clothes and that they are satisfied

Most people start claiming benefits within a year of when they become eligible, although benefits increase substantially if they wait.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.