The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

The best way to make something last is to believe that it won't.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

Woman submits to her fate; man makes his

Nice people are often not good people and good people are often not nice people.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism

I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.