It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.

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.

If you want to find God, then all you need to do is love.

The sun is new each day.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow.

To my mind, Guernica is the most important online intellectual and literary journal in America today.

As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia.

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.

We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.