All the things that are now worrying you can be put into a smile which shows your love of God.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.

To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.

Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

In this world we do not have to become the doer, we have to become nimit [an instrument, one of the many scientific circumstantial evidence, not the whole and sole doer].

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

Everyday I look in the mirror and make sure I don't pinch myself so I don't wake up. I don't take it for granted. All the time I say: 'Why me?'

Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.

I do Skid Row every night.

If a robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage, How feels heaven when Dies the billionth battery hen?