Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. 

He who hath many friends hath none.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. 

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enrich your soul.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism in a politics of hope?

Peace is its own reward.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. 

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. 

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.