Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

There are not so many murders in this township, I think to myself, and not so few policemen, that a killing should be treated like an old woman who has lost her cat.

To be a philosopher you do not need to be a professor but you do have to love and understand nature.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Toledo is a place of innovation

It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.

While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.

Give the benefit of the doubt; assume that your beloved's intentions are life-enhancing and positive.

For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you - to pray more, trust more, expect more.