Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.
All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.
God will not be outdone in generosity.
Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow. ' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.
As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before.
The worst part is that I saw the whole thing -- our whole life. And I want it bad, Jake, I want it all. I want to stay right here and never move. I want to love you and make you happy. And I can't, and it's killing me.
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.