We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

If the loss of your fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

please, Tana, please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

The habit of thinking prevents us at times from experiencing reality, immunises us against it, makes it seem no more than any other thought.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

I went from being Mario who? to Mario baby!

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

America cannot commit to go to war on behalf of 50 countries around the world because that is the formula that is one day going to break down and break out into war.

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.

Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery's dead?