No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying. [Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]

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.

His failure became my destiny

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.

The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

An oath is the most powerful weapon we have in our struggle against fornication and adultery

The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

I can't stand Liverpool. I can't stand the people. I can't stand anything to do with them.

We are capitalism made flesh.

The best social reform program in the world is a job.