Mary having co-operated in our redemption with so much glory to God and so much love for us, Our Lord ordained that no one shall obtain salvation except through her intercession.

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.

When I think of the word "organic, " I think of natural, wholesome, and fundamental.That's exactly what I want my children's education to be like.

The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

As we review our worries, we should make it a habit each day to God, "what is it I should focus on today"?

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself, ' as though I had any idea who that might be.

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me.