Even now I know it: yes, all my hopes will be fulfilled... yes... the Lord will work wonders for me which will surpass infinitely my immeasurable desires.

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.

I am the best in baseball.

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

People are obsessed. There's an incredibly large group of people that spend most of their time considering other people's lives. It's strange to me.

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.