“The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.”

Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

Haste is of the Devil.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Stop romanticizing people. Otherwise you will end up loving someone who only exists in your head.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

Every story has an end, but every end is a new beginning.

I was bad, but I was one of the kids that never got caught. If anyone ever knew I did something, it was because I told them. ‘Cause I’m a really good liar, so I end up snitching on myself.

At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that’s great, and that’s what makes you dynamic.

Just set yourself a goal and try and stick to it. Because you’ll always end up better than where you started.

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.