To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.

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.

Who knew Demon Child would have such a normal name? I expected something exotic like Serena or Destiny or the Evil One That Comes in the Night to Make Us Chilly.

To make people feel special you don't have to pay money but rather pay attention.

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?

This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.

Don't judge people because someone's molehill could be another person's mountain.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

I do respect Putin. I respect a lot of people. But that doesn't mean I'm going get along with him.

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.