Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

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.

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

Happiness is spending time with the one you love without a worry or a care.

The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.

How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.