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.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

A woman’s belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty.

When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there will always be a negative reaction.

Men are from Mars. Zombies are from Hell.

When fear seizes change what you are doing. You are doing something wrong.

And he nipped them in the bud, right at the end

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.