[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!

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.

Pick the axe

To obey the serpent is to live in once upon a time glory of God

In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!

I like to focus on what I'm doing now, which is giving back. I've done interventions with people I've been close to.

For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.

Two Polish men at Halloween with burned faces. What happened? They were bobbing for french fries.

Instant Karma is going to get you.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.