If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.

Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

The mountain is never as big as it appears. You're never as small as you believe.

All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)

Evil tongues never want a whet.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

Most people want to grow, but the price of growth is pain.

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.