All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand.

It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

My two sisters and I sang all the time. Whenever we cleaned the kitchen, we sang in three-part harmony.

Food nourishes you, brings people together, and I feel that anybody can bond over food.

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

Europe's biggest problem is its success.

Joy and woe are woven fine.