What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Things are solved by walking around.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.