The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth.

Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.

Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.

I have made a contract with my body. It has promised to accept harsh treatment from me on earth, and I have promised that it shall receive eternal rest in heaven.

If you want money more than anything, you will be bought and sold.If you have a greed for food, you will become a loaf of bread.This is a subtle truth.Whatever you love, you are.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

We have thought that because children are young they are silly. We have forgotten the blind stirrings, the reaching outward of our own youth.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead.