There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

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.

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

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

You're not supposed to die with your potential. A life well lived squeezes all the potential placed within and does something with it.

Helping begins with listening.

You might be a redneck if your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.

I would never know how that person felt when they first heard my song. They coulda been at rock bottom and my song could have literally been the thing that saved them, but I would never know that.

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.

It's very exciting to be a part of a team of collaborators in general.

All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.