Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment.

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

The platonic love I feel for my cousin, made me write this diary ...”Leione

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick.

Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there’s a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.

Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.

Ministry is pretty simple. Love people and help them.

I don't have an attitude, I have standards for the people who are supposed to be my friends.