It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.

Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour.

Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.

The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.

Though Jesus was in torture on the cross, He thought of praying for His persecutors, of caring for His mother, of securing the good thief's salvation.

God is not a follower.

If a person gets rid of any weight, or girth, or fat, it isn't lost--it is fought off, beaten off.

It was early spring, 326 BC, in the beautiful city of Chersonesus protected by a haunting deep blue sea and a giant wall. Today was the second day of the Festival of Dionysus.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

I'm going to have some fabulous nights out with champagne.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

Whenever I get to talk to young girls like me I always say, 'The only difference between you and I is that I know that I'm special and you just don't know that you are yet.'

When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.

All fires burn out at last.