An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.

Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.

We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often.

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.

It is through love that the door to Heaven is opened on earth.

I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees.

I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.