What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

To pray is to make petition.

Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorganic state

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

Come back and stand with us, lad. We will all go down together that's what makes us who we are.

Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

I am addicted to any facial product that's anti-aging.