Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Be who you are and be that well.

Invest your time and buy greatness with it.

Take it from me: Elections matter.

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good.

Nature did all things well

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.