Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

Keep your prayer simple. Whatever confuses or complicates prayer is probably best forgotten.

When it comes to ourselves, we often have a blind spot. That is, we fail to see ourselves as others see us. We fail to recognize our most obvious traits: our strengths, weaknesses, mannerisms.

It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything.

We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.

The first step towards obtaining wisdom is to acknowledge the sovereignty and authority of God and to be subject wholly to His will.

Is it a coincidence that success follows those who hand out its credit to their parents or teachers. Ironically, the converse is true as well.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

Always speak words such that you can give in written.

It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

I was not elected to serve one party.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.