There is no sinner in the world however much at enmity with God who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary and by asking her assistance.

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that because of it he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.

Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances.

Life is a flow of love.

Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

Nobody wants to proclaim, 'I changed the world with my inferior products.'

We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.