Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.

For your heart to be filled with God’s love is to forgive easily

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

Ye sons of France awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children wives and grandsires hoary Behold their tears and hear their cries!

Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.

Dancing is a feeling expressed from the inside out.

Running for president must be like having babies. You have to forget what it was like the last time before you want to do it again.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.