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.

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.

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

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You're going to advance in life by what you're going to learn after you leave here.

And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can live with, two things have to happen.

It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

Grady Nichols is the awesome new sax player for the millennium.

With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.

Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.