. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

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.

In the spiritual realms, we can only see the things of the spirit.

And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway

I guess a little bit hero is enough. A little bit hero is all anyone really needs to be.

By choosing our path, we choose our destination.

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

True power is stillness within motion.

... we always love best the people who need us.

Nature is an experimenter.