God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!

Don't agree and believe that success comes free... Gold on the floor is a lie! You must dig deep and then you will reap big!

The words you can't find, you borrow.

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

We're gonna have some fun tonight.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.