The guest of our soul knows our misery; He comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all He asks.

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us.Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but I actually mean sad.

Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?

Some genetic variants can be informative about ones risk for Parkinsons disease and Alzheimers disease.

If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal?

There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning.

We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

I was walking down the street, and I found a man's hand in my pocket. I asked, "What do you want?" "A match" "Why didn't you ask me?" "I don't talk to strangers."

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.