No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away; for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

Truth, which is simple and one, admits of no variety.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.

Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

Earn more to grow more, and grow more to give more.

It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

men i swear." -jacky faber

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

I hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.