The Eucharist is that love which surpasses all loves in Heaven and on earth

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

The measure of love is love without measure.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

What we love we shall grow to resemble.

The three most important virtues are humility, humility, and humility.

there are four degrees of love: 1) Love of self for self's sake. 2) Love of God for self's sake. 3) Love of God for God's own sake. 4) Love of self for God's sake.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Genuine love is so very powerful! Only a fool would take advantage of something that so many people yearn for.

I know what success means to me – it is when you look back at your life and the memories make you smile. That’s what success is to me

Publish a book before you’re too old to read it without glasses.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?

There is no future without education.

Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

I try to be patient. I feel like the point of art is to go down within yourself and to pop up into other people. If you're lucky, all of a sudden you're like, "whoop!" You're in other people.