Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

Socialism with a human face.

I just learn from other people. And I try to get strengths from other people and the things they do, the things they can overcome in their lives.

I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?