Imitation causes us to leave natural ways to enter into artificial ones; it therefore makes slaves.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.

You will never be satisfied until you are completely satisfied with God.

She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head.

Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour?

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.

To a greedy eating horse a short halter.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.