To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.
Revolutions are not made; they come.
If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.
No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.
Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions, and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them, nor all they have suffered to enrich us.
Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Each day provides its own gifts.
I can write better than anyone who can write faster, and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.