Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.

The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

Men do not fear a powerful hostile army as the powers of hell fear the name and protection of Mary.

Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God

Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.

Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.

It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.

The day was so wonderful that Bonaventure thought it would taste like cherry pie if he took a bite of it.

The Key to Heaven

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.

We live in a time where the media is a very difficult thing to navigate because it's everywhere, and I tend to want to be a lot more private with my life.

Remembering the past gives power to the present.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.