Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Faith is God's work within us.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Compassion is the basis of all morality

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon... what it means to you.

The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

Every error is truth abused.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.