The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.

If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.

If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.

Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.

The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.

From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki

Love enters only one gates - the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows.

Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.

I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.

Time is a river, and it flows in a circle. I love you.

What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

I’ve been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about. This one’s fun because a lot more people are interested in the show, wanting to talk about the mystery and that kind of stuff.

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.

Boy, the things I do for England.

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!