If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls.

Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

Scandal often does as much harm to the listeners as to those who devise it, even if it were to do no other harm than disturb the mind, as it does, and give rise to temptations to speak or write about it to others.

We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.

Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.