When you lie down on your bed to sleep, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.

I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility.

The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.

Expect temptation to your last breath.

This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.

One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.

Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.

The bigness of the West makes men quiet

Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

Church unity comes from corporate humility.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.

What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.