Encouragement is a mark of true friendship.

If you don’t value excellence, you won’t achieve excellence.

Peace doesn’t deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty.

Receptive prayer is one of the most powerful weapons against spiritual u-turns.

Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.