Let us be what God likes, so long as we are His, and let us not be what we want to be, if it is against his intention.

What we need is a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Dedicated selfless people shape the future

Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

You should always say exactly what you think directly to people all the time.

They hear you own up, and they learn to own up.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.