I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

I believe in order that I may understand.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.

She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.

On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant.

We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.

But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.

I realized my dream and was proud to be a Superstar. I never won a title, but being hired by WWE and being a Superstar, to me, was like winning a championship.

Failure is not an option. Success is just a process.