Man considers the actions, but God weighs the intentions.

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.

Your dreams become your reality if you have the courage to act on them.

You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

Who you think you are is what compels you to do what you do!

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

Oh -- who's the Queen?" "Her, of course. The White Queen. You're just like Alice, you know. Down the rabbit hole with the Mad Hatter.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

I start to crack at four hundred to one.