Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

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.

The flowers' beauty drew her closer to them like a magnetic force. She felt compelled to walk a little faster.

It is impossible to say why people put so little value on complete happiness.

He is lifeless that is faultless.

To all to each a fair goodnight And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.

Imitation of the art of earlier centuries, as that done by Picasso and Modigliani , is carried on not to perpetuate ancient values but to demonstrate that new aesthetic orders now prevail.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.