When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

I seek spirituality and self-knowledge.

Sometimes you have to walk away from what you want in order to find what you deserve.

I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me

I'm not the heroic type really. I was beaten up by Quakers.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

I'm afraid the negative things are always the great subjects. Failure is much more interesting than success.

You may not be winning, but this doesn't mean you are losing

Realists know where they're going. Dreamers have already been there.

Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.