My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

My dreams may be nonsense too, but I do not want to run the risk of not following them

Though never as complex as we fear, life is also never as simple as we might wish.

Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.

Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

Philanthropy lies at the heart of human greatness.

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.