To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

Either we learn to find the Lord in the ordinary everyday life or else we shall never find him

Don't say, "That person bothers me." Think: "That person sanctifies me".

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

You need a heart which is in love, not an easy life, to achieve happiness.

Say the Holy Rosary. Blessed be that monotony of Hail Mary's which purifies the monotony of your sins!

You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?

As soon as I laid eyes on him, it all came flooding back, all the reasons why I loved him, all the reasons why I hadn't been able to let him go.

And was it his destined part / Only one moment in his life / To be close to your heart?

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

You are my cat, and I am your human.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.