When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

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.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

It was a love that was not a contract but an affection of the soul.

My mom told me as a youngster I was always intellectual, like as far as being able to adapt fast and quick. But I had a fun childhood, went to regular school.

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

Jupiter was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish star appended to its side. This is called "an alliance."

No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word.

If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.