Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.

This whole world is full of God!

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.

There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.

Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

Our condition is most noble being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.

Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.

Fear has a large shadow but he himself is small.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

I do things every day for my birthday. I'm just not a party girl.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

I'm not ashamed that I need glasses for distance. I did not feel like I needed to have all of that hair, which was typical Star Jones, or the extra lashes or the heavy makeup.

Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.