Love is something worth suffering for.

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.

A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.

IF THE LORD IS OUR JOY, OUR JOY CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY. IT CANNOT BE LOST...JOY HAD COME TO THE WORLD, AND IT HAD COME TO STAY.

There is no fear in faith.

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.

It's important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there's a bigger picture involved and, you know, this is a character that's shared by everybody. It's not just purely your own.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.

When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not.

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.

It has to be very tight to seem loose.