True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.

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

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

Success must be personalised, contextualized and internalized. Success means something different to each one of us. We each have a unique and peculiar mission in life.

You may hold the same feeling even after a long gap, but not trust.

Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though they add up.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for 'The Passion of the Christ'? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.