Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this leaving all else alone.

I have often repented of having spoken. I have never repented of silence.

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.

It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.

Suffering is a short pain and a long joy.

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature.

By ignorance the truth is known.

Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament

After big storms there follow bright days.

Focus on making yourself better, not thinking you are better.

Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.

You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.

I'm always talking about the issue of Puerto Rico.I also spoke about it on the Senate floor, and I think it should be given the importance, the priority it deserves.

In my experience, it’s much easier to act like a Christian than it is to react like one. Anyone can put on an act. But your reactions reveal what is really in your heart.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.