If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.

Resistance to change" is our fine ability to create reasons to crib and criticize.

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.

We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you.

Emotions are the colors of the soul.