Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

All God's plans have the mark of the cross on them, and all His plans have death to self in them.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.", NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.

It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee.

Backing down can become a way of life.

How do you tell somebody how to find what they're looking for when ten years ago you came from the same place, and have yet to find it yourself?

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.