If faith fails, prayer perishes.

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

The Devil invented gambling.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.