An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.

To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.

Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

What's the rush, honey? We have all the time in the world.

To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.

Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Nothing kills a CEO's credibility faster than legal, regulatory, and/or ethical questions.

I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water.