I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Invisible things are the only realities.

The third direction of prayer is prayer against Satan, devils and demons

I thought he'd run if he knew. Instead, he offered help, not that I believed he could possibly help. I thought he'd turn his back, close his heart, slink away. Instead, he promised sanctuary.

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

I must learn what I can to teach what I must.

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.