If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Love turns work into rest.

In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.

...Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself...

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

If you can live while doing what you love, then you are already a success.

wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life.

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

Have the strength to be an honest person.

I mean, I am pretty fabulous. Am I not?' 'You're a pillar of fabulosity in the community,' I tell him.

I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.