If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

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.

Me I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

Every single person you meet, look at them like a golden million dollar baby.

Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons.

Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story is.

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.