“Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.”

“The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.”

“Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as St. Augustine says.”

“It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.”

“For the school of grammar has primacy: it is the fairest foundation of learning, the glorious mother of eloquence.”
Prima enim grammaticorum schola est fundamentum pulcherrimum litterarum, mater gloriosa facundiae.

“I've learned…. That being kind is more important than being right.”

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

“Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.”

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”

“The more we learn about volcanoes, the more we learn about the earth. Learning about the earth is more important than it has ever been.”