No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

Tolle, lege: take up and read.

Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.