Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

After a storm comes a calm.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

I learn life from the poets.

All mankind love a lover.

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

We must move "out of our mind" and dwell in our consciousness.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.