Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

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.

If you can be anything, be real.

If you want to be a strong, maturing Christian, your first priority is to develop a closer relationship with God.

Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

What we want is not always what we need.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

A man came round in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I had to amputate your arms"