Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.

The actions of yesterday, the pretenses of tomorrow, and the presence of now, have forever added to history.

Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.

I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

Jazz is not background music.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.