No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.

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.

Loving someone always requires you to not love others.

Solitude sets you free from the rat race of life.

Difficulties were fires. If you kept them in check, you could learn from them. You simply had to know how to fan them the right way.

Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

When you're working with the best, it helps you to be good because then you are focusing on what you have to do.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.

I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.