“Some people, in order to discover God, read books.”

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

The measure of love is to love without measure.

Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

Life is a misery, death an uncertainty.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Don’t be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency.

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, “now what?

I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals.

I don’t even hate books anymore.

Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite when the truth is I’d rather read a book.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.