It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

Let's still be friends" (things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say).

The Cuban Missile Crisis. It had to do with Cuba and missiles, I'm pretty sure.

In a bear market, you have to use sharp countertrend rallies to sell.

Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows." Angels and Demons p. 484

The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.

You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.

Good land, evill way.

Everyone finds their voice at different times in their life.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.