In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

There are Christians who are doing the right thing, but not always at the right time

If achieving a desired goal was easy why would anyone bother. There'd be no fun.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.

A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.