Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.
All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.
You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?