If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

Future does not exist, live your day and build yours.

The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country's reaction and view on corruption.

A lot of people do not like singer-songwriters, and a lot of people who like them do not like hard rock. It's either-or.

Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.