For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.

According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.