You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke which should never be used except in necessity.

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.

Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.

Strive to be faithful to that which God has called you.

Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.

We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.

Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.

Remember that the Devil doesn't sleep but seeks our ruin in a thousand different ways

Life […] is scientific, that’s what it is.

The future goes in incredible speed!

In the newspapers the row about the prospect of genetically modified food raged on, and yet here were consumers effectively demanding lambs with four back legs.

Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

Short-term can be terminal.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.