Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.

In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion, but act with a general confidence in GOD, with love and humility.

Freedom can only be understood in the context of destiny, or those things which limit our freedom.

It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything.

As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

A library: Where we can shhhh people without offense.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

I'm simply following the journey.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.