In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

The love to know is the passion for reading.

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.

when you're younga pair offemalehigh-heeled shoesjust sittingalonein the closetcan fire yourbones

It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.

I am basically a blazer. If I were a clothing item, I would be a legging and a blazer.

We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.

My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything.