When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.

Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.

Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.

You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.

Above the clouds the sky is always blue.

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.

We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.

I pray there's a God...I know there's an Oprah.

You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.