In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

With God there is no need for long speeches.

Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic.

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

An evil discovered is half healed.

Is there world enough for me?

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

Avoid stress, the doctor had said. Eat lots of good food and enjoy this little mysterious bun cooking in the oven. Ha!

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.

True men of this world do not wish. They change that which they know can be changed, they accept what cannot, and they always strive for the wisdom to know the difference.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.