The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most it is not he who gives alms or is most eminent for temperance chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

I feel great. George W.Bush is leaving. We're leaving. It's all perfect timing.

Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.

The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.