Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.

He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Christ is the Morning Star, who, when the night of this world is past, gives to his saints the promise of the light of life, and opens everlasting day.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.

We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.

The hypocrisy and infidelity are two flaws, but they can be treated if we can be faithful to ourselves.

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Got everything I'm asking for but you.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

We got to stop doing that, ladies. You know, men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.