"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."

"Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him."

"God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them."

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."