Always be quite simple and sincere and ask God to grant me those two virtues.

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 distant golden sunset sky, a magnificent rainbow is opening wings to fly.

With the clothes I design, I think about my friends, how I'd want them to dress, what I'd want them to wear.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

At some point, you have an opportunity to not be a first-time filmmaker anymore. You can embrace the genre and show the world how you can tell stories on a bigger scale.

Positive attitudes qualify you for positive experiences.

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon.

Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.