If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

To be the person you always wanted to be, do the right things with love.

It was like trying to recall a forgotten dream—each time I felt close to remembering where we’d met, the memories slipped away.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it.

I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.

In the dream life you don't deliberately set out to dream about a house night after night; the dream itself insists you look at whatever is trying to come into visibility.

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

If you don't like what you're getting, then change what you're doing. It's up to you.

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.