When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

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.

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

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.

This moment is spectacular!

The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga

Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.

Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.