Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

If God is the center of your life, no words are necessary. Your mere presence will touch hearts.

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which helps us to overcome difficulties.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.

See it first in your mind, then become it.

Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

C" is for colonies Rightly we boastthat of all the great nationsGreat Britain has most!

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

I've been a workaholic since I was 18.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

Nobody's safe around a writer.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.