Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

So much is yet to come. Soon will be blankets and pillows, and books by the bed to make the stuff of dreams. And then tomorrows.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.

A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

I believe in tackling things youre afraid of.

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit.

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.