Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you.

Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace.

Cling to God, and leave all the rest to Him: He will not let you perish. Your soul is very dear to Him, He wishes to save it.

May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you.

We must never be discouraged or give way to anxiety. . . but ever have recourse to the adorable Heart of Jesus.

I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the heart of God.

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.

Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love Thee, every spirit adore Thee and every will be subject to Thee!

My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center.

But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.

I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

First, in a love song, or any song for that matter, using a plastic word like "inhibitions" is just completely without feel or texture. It demonstrates a tin ear for communication.

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do.

If you bury the pain deep down it will stay with you indefinitely, but if you open yourself to it, experience it, and deal with it head-on, you'll find it begins to move on after a while.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

Mine, ... Mine is what she is.

When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.