You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a criminal himself.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

God's great Law is spiritual.

If you are not hungry for success, you will not make the best use of your time. It is simple and clear. People who are truly hungry for food never play with a meal when they see it.

I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.

Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States—and some might argue the world—is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.

Hell means torture

Superabundant piety/righteousness (and its practices) is that form of life that enhances the individual and the community simultaneously.

The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.