I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

We are made to know and love God.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

We must become what we were Before we were born

I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.

We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.