If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

It is important to study your mission and your goal

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages.

The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants.

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.