The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

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.

The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them.

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.