As for meditation, I would like you to be a disciple of prayer, because without prayer there is no habitual union with God. You need a type of prayer which is suited to your temperament, your situation, your inner inclination, consequently, your heart. Speak simply and candidly to our Lord as with another self, as with your sister. Be a child who is full of love and surrendered to her good maker. Let it be an interior conversation with God more than a work of the mind. Then, a scattered, distracted meditation will come together, because it will express all the thoughts and needs of your heart.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Ayn Rand

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

Jane Austen

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Lao Tzu

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Chinese Proverb

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Martina McBride

She was so fat that when guys have sex with her they ask for directions.

Rodney Dangerfield

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Mark Twain

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

Terry Eagleton

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

Les Brown

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Horace Walpole

At home in Victoria, we have three dogs, Tosh and Lucy, they're half Blue Heelers, and then there's Torrin a little Maltese terrier. She gets more attention in the house than anyone else! Yes, I miss them a lot.

Chris Hemsworth