Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

What you pray for today, will be manifest tomorrow.

The French have a term for this brazenness: je m’en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.

If you want to know my personality, look through my bedroom window and see how I act.

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.

We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friend.

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

True compassion comes from free will by drawing empathy from within.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.