Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

We have to be continually reminded of what we believe.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

The discomfiture we feel may be our most accurate human sensation; reminding us we are not quite "at home" here.

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.