What thou art, that thou art.

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.

I was covered in gore, dripping in slime, and in a very bad mood.

Do your job well without expecting any appreciation

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray.

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

My new dress. Do you like it? It's from my favorite designer, On Sale.

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.