Whoever fears God stands above all manner of fear. He has become a stranger to all the fear of this world and placed it far from himself, and no manner of trembling comes near him.

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.

No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.

Anyone who wants to be an example to others, must first examine himself.

O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.

Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness.

Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.

Like the apple of Thine eye preserve me, O Lord God; defend me and beneath Thy wings shelter me from temptations.

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

It's always a thrill to walk through a Broadway stage door.

The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.