Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Love is creative. It does not flow along the easy paths, spending itself in the attractive. It cuts new channels, goes where it is needed.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

My growth depends on my walls coming down.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

I see it all perfectly

Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself?

He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be, they almost always gave each other faithful support

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

She paused. That's just my way of saying I would've killed you if you'd died.

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

Al Roker said I am 80 years 'young'; it's like saying Al Roker is 320 pounds 'thin'.

He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life.

If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.