If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead.

Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.

Remember God more often than you breathe.

We are not made for ourselves alone, we are made for the good of all our fellow creatures.

I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.

What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.

It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

Beyond any technique, relationships are what heal.

It's really about living in your head... just looking out at the world, then going back into your head and tossing around a lot of ideas and coming out with something interesting to say.

The world changes when there's music in it.

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.