Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.