It is attachment to creatures and to self-satisfaction that weakens the blessings of love in your heart. You must die to all that, if you wish the pure love of God to reign therein.

Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you.

Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace.

Cling to God, and leave all the rest to Him: He will not let you perish. Your soul is very dear to Him, He wishes to save it.

May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you.

We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety. . . but ever have recourse to the adorable Heart of Jesus.

I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.

Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!

My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center.

But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.

Pray in the spirit when you call on the Lord to show you your calling

Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

People observe the colors of a day at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quiet clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment.

Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.

Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness.

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

What commercialism has brought to Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.