Consider God's charity. Where else have we ever seen someone who has been offended voluntarily paying out his life for those who have offended him?

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.

Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.

A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.

Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

To be mindful of social phenomena is thus to identify more clearly hatred, greed, and delusion as well as the seeds of wisdom and compassion both around us and in us. (p. 52)

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

What are you doing back at the bakery?” I asked [Diesel]. “Did you know Wulf was here?” “No. I knew food was here.

I have a gift. I just know what I'm doing.

I wanted more firsts with Tod. But all I had left was a handful of lasts.

Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.

I would bring Patti [Smith ] in to the editing room [working on the Dream of Life] and say, "This is a great moment for a voiceover, or a poem," and then we'd bring in some sound design.

Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.