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.

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

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.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

This place is alive, " Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

No, Harry, you listen, " said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

Find out whats possible, If you never give up.

The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

The egos in this industry are incredibly vulnerable and everybody's afraid to wipe out. So everybody plays it safe and everybody tells everybody else how great they are.

[Donald] Trump not taking [hillary] Clinton probe off the table.

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.