There is nothing more dangerous in the spiritual life, than to wish to rule ourselves after our own way of thinking.

Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.

A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

Threatened men live long.

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.

What good is having an imagination if you don't use it?

One day we wake up and we are broken. We taste it in our morning kiss. Our mirror tells us the same stories in separate hours: things will never be the same.

Make positive effort for the good.

I'm a baseball freak.

You fainted," I told Tank. "I did not," Tank said. "That's a lie.

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?