Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

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

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.

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.

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another.

With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.

Everyone needs a helping hand, You just have to offer it.

Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair.

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

Until you can let go of everything, you will find it hard to hold onto anything.

Eating soup with a fork: slow and messy.