Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

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.

Falling in love is like seeing the ocean for the very first time, when all of your life you've been stepping in puddles.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

I am coming back to that which has most affected me. I'm coming back to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.