From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki

If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.

If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.

If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.

Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.

The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.

Love enters only one gates - the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows.

Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"

The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.

When he put his arms around me, and held me to his chest, everything in me settled. When he spoke into my ear, it all came loose again, as if his words evaporated the gravity of my mind.

Language was just that thing that happened when you opened your mouth at the table, squeezed a few noises out of your vocal chords, and induced Socrates thereby to pass the salt.

Czech: Řekni mi, co čteš, a já ti řeknu, kdo jsi.English: Tell me what you read, and I'll tell you who you are.First president of Czechoslovakia.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what they were collectively brought up to believe.