Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice... to be intelligent?

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

We need law and order in America.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.

I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

When something feels right, that means it is right for you. Pay attention to your authentic feelings, and follow where they lead.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.