If you cast away one cross you will certainly find another and perhaps a heavier.

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

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

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.

An uneasy past often builds the strongest and finest people.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment we can start now start slowly changing the world!

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

I'm going to go out there and work hard. I'm going to get better, I'm going to learn from my mistakes and I'm going to be there when my team needs me.

And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?

I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.