“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

“I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.”

“Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.”

“The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears we caused by forgetting Thy love. Forgive us, Lord, for the curse we falsely attributed to their name as Jews. Forgive us for crucifying Thee a second time in their flesh. For we knew not what we did.”

“If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.”

“Prayer is the raising of the mind to God.We must always remember this.The actual words matter less.”

“... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.”