Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. . . . In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
My marriage is the most important thing in my life, but in a weird way I'm able to focus on other things more clearly by having it in my life.
Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not the body. Body is just rust and dust. Think only of God. Love God.
Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.
We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.