Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.

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.

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

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.

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.

Don't try to control what's outside. Be at peace with what's inside.

Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.