They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together...

I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

One must endure without losing tenderness.

You can do anything you think you can.

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

You can't have thousands of people being shot in a city, in a country that I happen to be president of. Maybe it's OK if somebody else is president.

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

I'm doing what I have to do. I want everyone to know that I love them.

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.