It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

When the waves of love, extinguish the fire of resentment, then the dawn of peace on earth will begin.

If you don't choose your daily words wisely, negative words wouldn't hesitate to choose a painful future for you.

Life is not supposed to be easy. Stop working so hard to make it that way. Go ahead and handle it!

What I do is me, for that I came.

I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.

Bruno Mars is pretty fashionable. Gary Clarck Junior, who was also in our ad with Jimmy Page, is a super super stylish guy.

How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?

The best way to be with your spirit is to forgive.

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.