“Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.”

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.

But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?

Who teaches the soul if not God?

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

God won’t allow anything happen in your life if it’s not for your good.

God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.