A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for

Good things are not necessarily God things.

I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

Whuf added the dragon.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.