Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.

I'm only this far, and only tomorrow leads my way.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and hearing the good Dhamma, this is the best good luck.

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.