Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

Having small group once a week gives me a lot of encouragement and accountability. Even though I go to church, I don't really know many people there, but my real community is my small group.

We all know our ideas can be crazy, but are they crazy enough?

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

I take losses very personal and very serious.

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet.