If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.

Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.

At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.

The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind; The Third, that it aims its beak to the skies; The Fourth, that it does not have a definite color; The Fifth, that it sings very softly.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.