This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.

When you lie down on your bed to sleep, remember with thanksgiving the blessings and the providence of God.

I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Humility.

The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.

Expect temptation to your last breath.

One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.

Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience.

Hurts are just alerts, to rise above through love.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

It might sound silly to some people, but if anybody wants to spend time to go out and glide on waves, it just feels like they have an appreciation for the joy of life and must be an okay person.

I can't do anything in moderation.

Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.