If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

The more one is united to his neighbor the more he is united to God.

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.

Let us be convinced that nothing can happen to us apart from the providence of God.

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

The devil loves and always rejoices over the ungoverned; those who are not subject to one who has power, under God, to help them and to give them a hand.

The grace of God comes swiftly to the soul when endurance is no longer possible.

In the measure that we pay attention and take care to carry out what we hear, God will always enlighten us and make us understand His will.

In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.

Even if we cannot endure much labor because we are weak let us be set on humbling ourselves.

When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

I’d volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free.

They say the eyes are the window to the soul.

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

I don't tell 'U.S. Weekly' which parties I'm going to. I write songs.

It's not that I don't like pants, I just choose not to wear them some days.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.