We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

He who plants kindness gathers love.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

Value is the best thing in the world.

Prayer isn’t about repeating rituals

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

I’m in love with everyone I’ve ever met in one way or another. I’m just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.

In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are not very many enlightened masters on the entire earth.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a "Single Ladies" for their artist, or a Puffy move.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

Your husband drinks too much if he says he never drinks alone, but considers the goldfish somebody.

It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.