I believe that were it not for the Holy Mass, as of this moment the world would be in the abyss.

If you practice the holy exercise of Spiritual Communion a good many times each day, within a month you will see yourself completely changed.

Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.

What graces, gifts and virtues the Holy Mass calls down.

Your strength is beyond your own imagination.

An employer’s fart is music to his employees’ ears.

I’m not perfect. And I don’t have to be. I can figure it out as I go, and as long as I do the best I can, it’s okay if I still screw up.

Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy.

The theater is magical and addictive.

Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative.

I am a believer and a conformist.

It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.