Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Friends are a second existence.
Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung his bell, What would you buy?
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.
No one knows what he can to do until he tries.
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.
'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths out grabe.
Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
Fame is something which must be won; honour is something which must not be lost.