Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.

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.

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

We live in the world our questions create.

I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.