“When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.”

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

You can make anything by writing.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

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.

What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humor.

Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

I am welcoming a new phase of life with confidence in my potential to progress in spite of my fears.

Do everything with love, do it because it gives you satisfaction and joy, do it because it feeds your soul, do it because it helps you grow and gives you that confidence in yourself we’re all after.