Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

True prayer is a lonely business.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

Be patient, you are in good company. Our Lord Himself, our Lady, the apostles, and countless saints, both men and women, have been poor.

One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.

He's the best I ever had. And the worst thing that ever happened to me.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

How many of us give up along the way because we'll never be the expert that so-and-so is?