Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

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.

The lightest weight anyone can carry on life’s journey is hope.

I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk

I have the talent and the tools to win.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.