He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

Have you ever asked yourself this question "what can God do through me?" The preacher has no platform if the people has no sense of mission.

The sacred fire is faith.

Once you have produced your best self, then you will be able to produce new seeds and fruits after your kind.

With you, what you see is what you get. And I see cheap.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.