You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.

To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.

Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

The problem is solvable puzzle.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

I don't go to a lot of parties or do a lot of going out within, like, the Hollywood circle or celebrity-type circles and things like that.