Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

Life is but words.

Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom—small potatoes that it is.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.

Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.