To go to Mass is to go to Heaven.

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.

A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

If you complain to someone, you assume that it's someone who really cares about you.

Love is something worth suffering for.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.

The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.

IF THE LORD IS OUR JOY, OUR JOY CANNOT BE TAKEN AWAY. IT CANNOT BE LOST...JOY HAD COME TO THE WORLD, AND IT HAD COME TO STAY.

Knowing when to be silent makes you seem wiser beyond your years.

The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.

He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.

He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction.

I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that.

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.