God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

A dream? With you, reality is always as a dream. There is no greater fantasy, no grander epic, than being with you.

And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life. Certain words travel far and wide.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

Don't immanentize the eschaton!

God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die for Him as well.

Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.

There's always a rainbow at the end of every rain.

The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.

I've never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful