Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.

Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.

Every visible and invisible creature is an appearance of God.

Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.

The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return, in order to cease and rest in it.

Nemo intrat in caelum nisi per philosophiam

Mirror reflects your outer beauty

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.

"Welcome to the Amity compound," Johanna's eyes fix on my face, and she smiles crookedly. "Let us take care of you."

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.