Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

With God there is no need for long speeches.

Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic.

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

An evil discovered is half healed.

Is there world enough for me?

Your are where you desire to live.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

Especially for this film [ 47 ronin] there's a nice mixture between western and eastern. So Ronin wearing the boots, like Western style. It's a nice mixture.

I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they're just one thing, and we shouldn't complicate the matter.

Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.