“It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.”

What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.

Wherever…thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.

The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father’s portion?

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man

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.

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

Life is ridiculous. It’s not our fault.

The writer’s life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody’s fault. You chose it.

We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -‘Fix it’- whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

The people you don’t know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like.

Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.