Not to know how to deny our soul its own wishes, is to foment a very hot-bed of vices.

Cast yourself into the arms of God and be very sure that if he wants anything of you, He will fit you for the work and give you strength.

A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.

The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.

To preserve our cheerfulness amid sicknesses and troubles, is a sign of a right and good spirit.

First let a little love find entrance into their hearts, and the rest will follow.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years.

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.

I like a girl with a substantial bottom, ' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

Sing the world into existence…..

If one chews a problem over long enough, it becomes apparent that the jaw is aching, and what started as weighing heavy on the heart ends up a pain in the neck.

Everybody is wondering what Paris Hilton will be doing next, and hell, I'm wondering what she did before.

I can't keep somebody from being a star, and I can't make somebody a star, and nobody can.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.