For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.

Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God.

The new year has begun for us. / Now must God grant us with love / That we may be able so to begin it / That it may be of value for Love.

Our thoughts and imaginations are much more powerful than our feelings or actions.

It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups are welcome to the act of learning.

I think that's my personality, to have a good laugh and not to take myself too seriously. And of course I have my things on the court but when I'm off the court I just like to have fun.

Jem is my greatest sin.

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

Smaller cities, places like Sarajevo, for example, even amid all that destruction there's still so much pride that the [Olympic] games were there and that they did it.

Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.

Thought is the seed of action.

Teach the art of living well.

It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.