With God there is no need for long speeches.

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic.

... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation.

An evil discovered is half healed.

Is there world enough for me?

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.

Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

You have to talk about what you love, to bring what you love to you.