Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

Ignite your lamp of peace and enlighten the world from the darkness of hatred.

Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.

hate generalizes, love specifies

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

To heal illness, begin by restoring balance.

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

You are going to hear how he [Donald Trump] is going to address the 11 million, and some other issues as well, including sanctuary cities.

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.