"The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life."

"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could not learn in any other way."

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a more clever devil."

"I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that."