. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

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.

You’re like the broken chapter of my favorite story.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him.

Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

I'd been collecting different ethnic instruments here and there, and then I started making little bell type stuff, looking for weird little sound toys.