Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

He leaned back, appalled at himself. She was a ***damn dose of truth serum. Things were falling out of his mouth as though his ability to sensor had short-circuited.

Anything anybody has was purchased with the currency of time.

The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . .

DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you.

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Artists are the antennae of the race.

The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man.