Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.

Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically.

I will be kind to everybody, particularly to those whom I find troublesome.

An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.

When people love and recite the Rosary they find it makes them better.

Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You.

A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him.

Our Lord has created persons for all states in life, and in all of them we see people who who achieved sanctity by fulfilling their obligations well.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Every book was a door

What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.

Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.'

See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.