Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.

It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Love turns work into rest.

In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.

...Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself...

I live now and only now and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.

I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.

When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

What you have to get is a ocean of love within your heart and to seek that in others also.

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.