All of us can attain to Christian virtue and holiness, no matter in what condition of life we live and no matter what our life work may be.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t been paying attention.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)

Relationships are the oxygen of the psyche.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.