Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Gratitude is arriving at the point where your expectations, accumulation and anticipations make way for appreciation, reflection and celebration.

My greatest hope is to be a mother who loves Jesus with a deep and abiding affection that joyfully overflows to my children.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

I do feel free, I have patched things up with my ex-husband to the degree of this real friendship. We spend a lot of time together as a family with our son, no way will we be man and wife again.

Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.

True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.

Respect kindly all religions that teach loving kindness, and have no respect for envy and jealousy. Never follow hate.

Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing.

How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.