Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.