I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

Life is a collection of experiences. Stockpile those wrought with love like the treasures they are.

God knows everything that happened in your life

The dead should not linger.

You’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

If I had my life to live over, I would never dream