It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Acting careers dont come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.

We had to forgive to survive the labyrinth

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

I don't predict knockouts. The outcome and the performance I am looking for is a victory, nothing less than a victory.