Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

What do I love when I love my God?

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

Life ought to be live with great optimism.

According to Google statistics, people search the word "money" four times as often as the word "goal". This creates a word: "frustration".

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

Coffee gives me bad breath.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.