"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
— Evelyn Waugh

"What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?"
— Apostle Paul, Servant of Jesus Christ

"It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is He who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, makng the world more human and more fraternal."
— Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

"Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic." "
— Pope Benedict XVI

"The future starts today, not tomorrow."
— Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

"If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you."
— Pope Benedict XVI

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. "
— Niccolò Machiavelli (The Prince)

"We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe."
— John Henry Newman

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."
— John Henry Newman

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."
— Napoleon Bonaparte

""Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.""
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both."
— Erwin Rommel

"No plan survives contact with the enemy"
— Erwin Rommel

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him."
— Augustine of Hippo

"There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future."
— Augustine of Hippo

"Beware the man of one book."
— Thomas Aquinas

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
— Thomas Aquinas

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
— Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote"
— Cervantes (Don Quixote)

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
— Cervantes

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves."
— Anonymous (Holy Bible: The King James Bible)

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."
— C.S. Lewis

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
— C.S. Lewis

"We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves."
— Blaise Pascal

"To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover. That's not easy, but the basic Yes, the conviction that God has created men, that he stands behind them, that they aren't simply negative, gives love a reference point that enables it to ground hope on the basis of faith."
— Pope Benedict XVI

"It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion."
— Pope Benedict XVI

"Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave."
— Pope Benedict XVI (God Is Love)

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. "
— Leo Tolstoy

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.""
— Leo Tolstoy