"Afflictions clarify the soul."

“Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.”

Source : "Christ in Literature: Being a Treasury of Choice Readings, in Prose and Verse". Book edited by J.B. Ford, p. 154, 1875.

“I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion.”

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“Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.”

“We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.”

“I still believe that workers must be the basic force which must organize and eventually transform society (along with peasants in poor countries). This is because they are the source of the profits which make capitalism what it is. They can shut the system down, and at the same time they possess the unique knowledge needed to make it work in everyone's interests.”

“In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful”

“[Michael] Felix and other immigration attorneys say it's possible [Melania] Trump was doing what a lot of models do - working illegally on a tourist visa.”

“Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.”