Mary being destined to negotiate peace between God and man, it was not proper that she should be an accomplice in the disobedience of Adam.

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.

All I can think is that it must be a kind of rebellion, To arm your fears like soldiers and slay them.

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.

I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.

You can really learn from Donahue. I didn't know you could be a woman in a man's body. You go out and you can't parallel park.

I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass.