He who wishes for goods will never have devotion.

Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.

A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

Success comes with failure which leads to doubts but with determination we can still achieve.

If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.

A man notices a womans figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.