When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.

You cannot make a miracle like love happen.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

Oh, drop the act, Tinkerbell, and get rid of my problem. Then we’ll talk.

Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.

We love disasters that have nothing to do with us

I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.