Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.