Genuine rights don’t conflict—they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts.
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Learn to. . . be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
When I was little, I wanted to be a mother, because that's who I saw. I saw my mom caring for me. I didn't play doctor. I didn't play lawyer. I didn't have those visions until I was in college, meeting people who were doing those things. That's why we're trying to encourage moms, teachers, fathers, to be that presence in their children's lives, in their communities, because it really makes a difference.
To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.
I'm not afraid to fail. . . I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.
It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good