No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind.

Do not be afraid to preach the gospel

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

My wife always asks me why I don't make the bed. And I respond with the same reason why I don't tie my shoes after I take them off.

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.