I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

If you want to learn something that will really help you, learn to see yourself as God sees you and not as you see yourself in the distorted mirror of your own self-importance.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns.

I failed many times, but I always found myself stronger and wiser.

It takes time love and support to find peace with the restless one.

God's path always delivers what He promises.

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

I'm worried about the world because there's chaos in the Middle East, and I think the Iranian deal [to lift sanctions] is going to continue the Shia-Sunni battles, the Persian-Arab battles.

See deep enough, and you see musically.