We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.

It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.

I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back in a second flowering at the age of 70 to 90.

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.

Plenty of times, I haven't been able to wear certain clothes because they didn't come in my size.

I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.