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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

Treasure is the kind of thing you dig up... or bury! And when people say, 'Oh, he's an icon,' well, an icon is a very old painting hanging in a Russian church! If you want to say something, say something nice about me. Don't call me a national treasure.

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.