You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

A life not lived for others is not a life, a game not played for others is not a game.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.

The Law which governs all life is God.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close.

Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even.

Before the trip I read that pilgrims often bring a small rock or stone from their home. It represents a burden they've been carrying or a loved one they are grieving or a sin for which they're doing penance. At some point on the Camino, they lay down that stone. The most popular place is at the Cruz de Ferro in Spain, the highest point on the Camino Frances.

He fully discharged the obligations of every relationship that He sustained, either to God or to man.