God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.