How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us - in the depths of her own agony and desolation!

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.

When you dream for perfect life ahead, you may not get a fresh start always.Mend a little, bend a little. Find what you have, where you are. Adapt, improvise, move on.

We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I do, Augustus. I do.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

I'm not going to just take office in January, I'm going to take responsibility.

I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.