Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends you, or which come to you from within and without.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might. -Oromis

I take this continent with me into the grave.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can't protect themselves against the evil!

The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.