A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired