“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say “My heart is broken.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.

Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.

God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.

We lend power to the things we fear!

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

It’s the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.