He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.

... The soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust.

A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted to leave a mark on the Earth and be remembered.

Early in life we recognize certain talents in ourselves, and we focus on those to the exclusion of others. It's not that nothing else is possible, but that nothing else was nurtured.

I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times.

You have delighted us long enough.

Great is the advantage of patience.

We do not have to be victims of circumstance.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.