The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

Let us learn to see the beauty of life. Let us learn to appreciate and forgive. This is when we will find peace everywhere.

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.

The hardest times to choose love become the very times that you can most grow spiritually.

If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

The urbanized life has lead to the destruction of the legends.

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

I may drink too much and play too loud, hang out with a rough and rowdy crowd. That don't mean I don't respect my mama or Uncle Sam.