Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.