Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.

There is only one misery . . . not to be saints.

Everyone can dream and as impossible as it may look and sound, this kind of thinking and attitude is what will keep us going.

He might have proved a useful adjunct if not an ornament to society.

My mother said "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said "Just wait."

Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing.

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

For the living, death is thievery.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.

Getting even is one reason for writing.