Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

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.

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

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.

I've been to the other side...You're dead there, too.

Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.

For me, music comes naturally. I always just get in the studio and I feel like, wow, this is my heaven.

Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.