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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Don’t leave it to chance, find success and replicate it.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

Our point is we don't want to sit in the government and tell you what you have to buy [as a health insurance]. We want to make this work so that you have choices, so that we have more competition.

The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.