What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

It's too much to be forgiven when all you want is to be blamed.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

We all seek for lost things within us.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving and whole.

I made all my generals out of mud.

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.