Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

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.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!

Innocent tourists? You make me sound like the big bad wolf.”“And you’re not?” I questioned.“Only if you’re Red Riding Hood, ” he said flirtatiously.“Wow, that’s original.

All I have is a voice.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

Regeneration is the cause of faith, not faith the cause of regeneration.