May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up.

Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps.

If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

I think that American people really know how to pursue fun, they really know how to have a good time. Japanese are somewhat more reserved than Americans, so I'm jealous.