The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

It is sometimes said that conduct is supremely important and worship helps it. The truth is that worship is supremely important and conduct tests it

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

TimeTrap raised her head and looked pointedly at St. John. “It was a dimensional portal, silly. Duh.

Cat rescue is like a virus, " says Des placidely about the cat obsession that has taken over his life. "And once you're infected, it's incurable.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

The one thing for sure is, I don't ever want to waste a movie. I don't ever want to waste effort.

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

I count my blessings far more than I count my money.

God never made his work for man to mend.

It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

History breaks down into images, not into stories.