When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.

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.

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

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.

Taking actions will fulfill your dreams and wishes, not the prayers and blessings.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Silence is often the best thing to say.

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.

I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop.

A man lives by believing something.