I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.

God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

We offend God because we do not know His greatness.

'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.

The poor should live by alms.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

We call a story about love a love story. We call a poem about love a love poem. Well then, my dear, aren’t our lives love lives?

Worry about others but don't show it.Don't worry about things that cannot be changed.

A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

Horton, the kangaroo has sent Vlad!' Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?' Which one do you think?' Bad Vlad?' Good call.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.