What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

The measure of love is love without measure.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

Learn from your mistakes and don't do the same.

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

If you can fix a problem with money, it's not really a problem.

The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.