He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

By not letting me turn you into something you're not, you've helped me be more of myself.

You must be able to say "I understand, " before you can say "I agree, " or "I disagree, " or "I suspend judgment.

If God is with you, it wouldn't matter anymore who is against you.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

I always say I write because I have lots of questions, not because I have any answers.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.