So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

Without humility of heart all the other virtues by which one runs toward God seem - and are - absolutely worthless.

Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.

Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.

This whole world is full of God!

By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.

Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.

There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.

Our condition is most noble, being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

Our condition is most noble being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.

Eyebrows are what give the eyes focus

If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

Never fall for a man whose chief antagonist is himself, whose chief conversational partner is the man in the mirror when he shaves.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.