Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

Religion isn't the problem ignorance and hatred are.

For everyone who never smiled in school photos, for all who’ve wandered city streetsnot knowing the where they were or feeling alone, I’ve packed kindness.

Om is the signature sound of this Universe. It is the soundless sound of existence.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

What I've been saying to people is that I write it.