I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

Love God, and do what you like.

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.