“God wants a child’s heart and a grownup’s head.”

Every Christian would agree that a man’s spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

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

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.

Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.