All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.

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.

Lies and partial truths complicate life.

Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I saw that there was a whole world of opportunity in the States that I wanted to discover.

How about if I had two people in the race? The number would've been twice as good. In other words, people with 2 million people. Because the Republican party increased.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out.

The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.