Unjust laws aren't laws at all.

In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.