. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

The negative patterns that form as a result of this self defeating behaviour actually symbolize the negative belief that we nurture.

The world is a living mirror. With the light of your perception, you see yourself in it every moment.

For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.