Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?

The root of all evil is 'I', 'Me' , 'Mine'.

Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.

Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry

The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.

Pray with perseverance, with faith, with calmness and serenity.

If you have the courage to imitate Mary Magdalene in her sins, have the courage to imitate her penance!

Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.

Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.

Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.

Your internal thoughts determine your outer world.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.

If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.

I will not rule out anything. I don't speculate on my own future. I'll wait and see what happens.