When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.

The only relevance worth to pursue, is living your passion through your interests.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

The only failures are those who fail to try.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.