You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return.

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!

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.

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

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

I really believe that women who are confident in their natural beauty are the most beautiful

A friend, even if he be the enemy's son , should be protected.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.